Miller wrote: “To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that you will be crushed in expectation, and…” 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
Barefoot · Heading 166; source lines 3178–3184 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that you will be crushed in expectation, and evil influences will surround your every effort.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Barefoot · Dream section, heading 14; source lines 3544–3546 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A successful speculation or bargain.
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
Barefoot · Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9106–9108 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you have become barefoot, a dream of success and prosperity (Gypsy).
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