Miller wrote: “To see hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Anvil · Heading 93; source lines 2510–2520 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work; to the farmer, an abundant crop; favorable indeed to women. Cold, or small, favors may be expected from those in power. The means of success is in your power, but in order to obtain it you will have to labor under difficulty. If the anvil is broken, it foretells that you have, through your own neglect, thrown away promising opportunities that cannot be recalled.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Anvil · Dream section, heading 16; source lines 3891–3893 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing or hearing an anvil means happiness.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Anvil · Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 8991–8993 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Prosperity despite obstacles (Raphael); an emblem of the primal force (Bayley).
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