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Miller wrote: “Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting.” Compare 2 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

Back-bite · Heading 140; source lines 2964–2972 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting.

For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.

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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

Backbite · Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9065–9069 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you are victimized by a scandal promises high success, the favor of great persons (Dream-books). A dream of the contrary, probably inspired by the interpreter's knowledge of the subconscious.

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