Miller wrote: “To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion.” Compare 4 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
Banana · Heading 159; source lines 3108–3120 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion.
To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business, and self-inflicted duty.
To see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise.
To trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Banana · Heading 45; source line 1165 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream you are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To dream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a girl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells she will soon be married, or ought to be.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Bananas · Dream section, heading 12; source lines 3540–3542 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A piece of good luck coming.
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
Bananas · Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9098–9101 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating them denotes misfortune (Gypsy). There is a Melanesian legend that the banana was the cause of human mortality.
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