Miller wrote: “Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children.” 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
Baking · Heading 149; source lines 3030–3035 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children; meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Baking · Heading 42; source line 1150 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Oven.) For a woman to dream she is baking bread, foretells thrift. If she is a farmer’s wife, it is a sign of good crops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a miscarriage.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Baking · Dream section, heading 34; source lines 3934–3937 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of baking pies or cakes, a visitor; if bread, a loss.
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