Miller wrote: “To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you and hands are clean.” 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
Bacon · Heading 142; source lines 2981–2992 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you and hands are clean.
Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states will worry you.
To dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke. If clear, it is good.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Bacon · Heading 40; source line 1143 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of bacon or pork, denotes the death of some friend or relation, and that enemies will endeavor to do you a mischief; in love, it denotes a disappointment of some kind.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Bacon · Dream section, heading 58; source lines 334–337 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of bacon denotes the death of some friend or relation and that enemies will endeavor to do you mischief. In love, it denotes disappointment and discontent.
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