Miller wrote: “To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you.” Compare 2 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
Bones · Heading 253; source lines 3889–3896 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you.
To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.
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
Bones · Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9257–9259 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Human bones an omen of death in the family (Artemidorus); a Christian symbol of death, mortality
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