Miller wrote: “Take unusual care of all depending upon you.” 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
Apparition · Heading 97; source lines 2609–2616 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Take unusual care of all depending upon you. Calamity awaits you and yours. Both property and life are in danger. Young people should be decidedly upright in their communications with the opposite sex. Character is likely to be rated at a discount.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Apparition · Heading 27; source line 1085 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see an apparition or spirit, clothed in white, signifies deceit, temptation to sin, and disappointment in love. 57.
The following is an old prediction in verse:
To dream of seeing strange apparitions, As devils, hobgoblins, and such visions, Does show thy love, or thy sweetheart, Hath a fair face, but devil’s heart.
A. H. Noe · Apparition
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Apparition · Dream section, heading 12; source lines 115–116 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see an apparition, or spirit, clothed in white, signifies deceit and temptation to sin.
A. H. Noe · Apparitions
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Apparitions · Dream section, heading 19; source lines 169–173 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see a ghost, goblin, spectre and such kind of things, is of a very unfortunate nature; if you are in love, it is a certain sign of your not being beloved in return; depend upon it some one is about to deceive you and that you are friendly with one who is your most inveterate enemy.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Apparitions · Dream section, heading 7; source lines 125–134 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see a ghost, hobgoblin, spectre, and such kind of things, is of a very unfortunate nature, they denote vexation and disappointment; if you are in love, it is a certain sign of your not being beloved in return. Some one is about to deceive you and you are friendly with one who is your most inveterate enemy; do not undertake a journey, for it will be unfortunate for you; be careful of contracting debts, for such a dream forebodes great trouble through some one to whom you shall owe money.
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