Miller wrote: “This is a very good dream to the majority of people.” Compare 5 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
Apples · Heading 98; source lines 2616–2631 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is a very good dream to the majority of people.
To see red apples on trees with green foliage is exceedingly propitious to the dreamer.
To eat them is not as good, unless they be faultless. A friend who interprets dreams says: “Ripe apples on a tree, denotes that the time has arrived for you to realize your hopes; think over what you intend to do, and go fearlessly ahead. Ripe on the top of the tree, warns you not to aim too high. Apples on the ground imply that false friends, and flatterers are working you harm. Decayed apples typify hopeless efforts.”
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Apples · Dream section, heading 21; source lines 181–183 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of apples betokens long life and success, a boy to a woman with child, faithfulness in your sweetheart and riches by trade.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Apples · Dream section, heading 18; source lines 3895–3898 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Signify gain. If you are eating them, disappointment; if on a tree, good news.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Apples · Dream section, heading 7; source lines 3526–3528 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Long life: (to a woman) many years and many children.
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
Apples · Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 9001–9009 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Ripe apples augur success in trade, love, etc.; green apples, the contrary. The gypsy influence is distinctly traceable in the folk-lore of the apple as coloring the dream. It confers immortal youth in the fairy-tale, golden apples, love apples, etc., while in Christian symbolism it represents the fall from Eden, the sin that made Christ's coming necessary. Freud makes this a sexual dream, and Inman gives the apple as a symbol of sexual love.
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