Miller wrote: “This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.” Compare 4 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
Apes · Heading 95; source lines 2527–2535 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.
To see a small ape cling to a tree, warns the dreamer to beware; a false person is close to you and will cause unpleasantness in your circle. Deceit goes with this dream.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Apes · Heading 26; source line 1081 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Monkey.) To dream you have seen or had any thing to do with them, signifies malicious, though secret enemies; and warns you against carrying on law-suits.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Apes · Dream section, heading 11; source lines 113–115 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you have seen or had anything to do with them, signifies malicious, weak, strange and secret enemies; also a malefactor and deceiver.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ape · Dream section, heading 17; source lines 3893–3895 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Means an enemy. If running from you, safety.
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Also indexed as: ape
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