Craig wrote: “To dream that your body is robust denotes authority, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in question (Artemidorus).”
The historical account
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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
Body · Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9250–9256 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that your body is robust denotes authority, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in question (Artemidorus); here the ancients and moderns meet, undoubtedly the dream of any part of the body, whether of one's own or that of another, is resultant upon physical stimulus.
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