Miller wrote: “To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections of your sweetheart.” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Boots · Heading 258; source lines 3937–3947 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections of your sweetheart.
To wear new boots, you will be lucky in your dealings. Bread winners will command higher wages.
Old and torn boots, indicate sickness and snares before you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Boots · Heading 83; source line 1325 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Shoes.) To dream of new boots and shoes, indicates sweethearts to the single, and friends to the married; old shoes or boots show separation, and dirty or old ones are a sign of poverty and sorrow.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Boots · Dream section, heading 70; source lines 4030–4033 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of new boots means success in business; of old boots, a quarrel.
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
Boots · Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9264–9266 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
If new, renown, a happy future (Art); boots or shoes are symbols of luck.
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