Miller wrote: “This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children.” Compare 6 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
Beans · Heading 186; source lines 3336–3347 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children.
Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs. Care should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.
To dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness of a well loved friend.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Beans · Heading 59; source line 1216 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating beans is a sign of trouble. If you are picking beans, it denotes poverty.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Beans · Dream section, heading 62; source lines 346–347 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are eating beans always signifies trouble and dissension.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Beans · Dream section, heading 47; source lines 3970–3972 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If cooked, they signify a quarrel; if raw, danger.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Beans · Dream section, heading 12; source lines 154–158 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of beans is an unfavorable dream, it is the forerunner of troubles and quarrels; if you are in love, expect a difference between you and your sweetheart.
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
Beans · Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9140–9145 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
An unfortunate dream; to eat them augurs illness, to see them growing predicts contentions and quarrels (Artemidorus). An erotic dream according to recent authority. The Flamen Diates at Rome, the Egyptian priests, the ancient Hebrews and the Pythagoreans were forbidden to eat them.
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