Miller wrote: “To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will…” 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
Bells · Heading 207; source lines 3544–3551 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will worry you.
Liberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Bells · Heading 69; source line 1257 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a wedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell tolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the tolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her.
A. H. Noe · Bells
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Bells · Dream section, heading 54; source lines 316–317 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you hear the bells ringing, denotes a speedy marriage and that you will receive some very good news.
A. H. Noe · Bells
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Bells · Dream section, heading 66; source lines 360–362 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one hears ringing of bells, if of a sanguine complexion, brings them good news; but to others, it shows alarms, murmurings, disturbances and commotions.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Bell · Dream section, heading 53; source lines 3985–3989 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Hearing the marriage bell means happiness; a church bell, alarm or misfortune. A dinner bell means a feast or wedding.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Bells · Dream section, heading 15; source lines 176–179 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you hear the bells ringing denotes a speedy marriage, and that you will receive some very good news.
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
Bells · Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9192–9196 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A good dream under all conditions (Gypsy). They were believed by the ancients to disperse storms, to drive away pestilence, devils and to extinguish fire. In Christian symbolism they represent the exorcism of evil spirits.
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