Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket…” 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
Basket · Heading 175; source lines 3236–3242 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full; but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Basket · Dream section, heading 77; source lines 385–391 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a man to dream of baskets is evil; it denotes decay of business to a merchant, want of employment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman dreams she receives a number of baskets it is a good omen, and especially so if well filled; to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new lovers; to a wife, that she will have an increase in her family, and to the widow, that she will soon marry again.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Basket · Dream section, heading 43; source lines 3959–3962 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A full basket means ease and prosperity. An empty one means new endeavor in order to achieve success.
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