Miller wrote: “This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags.” Compare 5 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
Bag-Pipe · Heading 144; source lines 2996–3000 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Bagpipes · Heading 41; source line 1147 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of bagpipes, signifies trouble, contention, and loss of a lawsuit.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Bagpipe · Dream section, heading 32; source lines 3930–3932 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To hear or play a bagpipe signifies trouble.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Bagpipes · Dream section, heading 9; source lines 139–145 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this instrument of Scottish music indicates that the dreamer will experience great trouble, and that he will labor to little purpose; in love, it denotes that the marriage state will be full of cares, and that you will in it experience much poverty and distress.
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
Bagpipes · Printed p. 198–199; NLM OCR lines 9077–9087 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream forecasting increase in family and fortune (Gypsy). Bayley recounts the legend of the mountain called Caraiman; whenever he played the bagpipes all things that he desired would grow about him (Carpathian legend).
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