Miller wrote: “To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil.” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller · Brambles
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Brambles · Heading 267; source lines 4020–4026 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil. Law suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you, or some of your family.
The source heading “Brambles” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings
View source editionGustavus Hindman Miller · Briars
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Briars · Heading 277; source lines 4103–4110 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress, but if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends will come to your assistance in every emergency.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Briars · Heading 93; source line 1371 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are among briars and get pricked, foretells that you will have an angry dispute with somebody. If a young girl who has a lover dreams it, she will probably get vexed at him.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Briars and Brambles · Dream section, heading 65; source lines 354–360 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream you are passing through places covered with these things, it portends troubles; if they prick you, secret enemies will do you an injury with your friends and unfavorable tales will make your sweetheart shy of you; if they draw blood of you, expect heavy losses in trade. If you dream you pass through them without injury, then you will at last triumph over all your enemies and become happy.
The source heading “Briars and Brambles” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings
View source editionAstra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Briars · Dream section, heading 74; source lines 4040–4042 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Signify disputes.
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
Brambles or Briars · Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9294–9297 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Brambles or Briars
Original source (English)
A dream of desire in love, a wish for the unattainable (Artemidorus); Freud and modern symbolism alike corroborate this interpretation.
The source heading “Brambles or Briars” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings
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