Miller wrote: “To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any, it will be bad for you.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Angling · Heading 89; source lines 2486–2491 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any, it will be bad for you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Angling · Heading 24; source line 1076 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Fish.)
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Angling · Dream section, heading 10; source lines 111–113 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are angling, betokens much affliction and trouble in something which you desire to get.
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