Miller wrote: “To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome.” 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
Brood · Heading 286; source lines 4203–4211 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly.
Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Brood
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Brood · Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9340–9344 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
For a mother to dream of seeing a brood of chickens under a hen warns her that despite her care some of her offspring will stray (Artemidorus). Obviously this dream is traceable to maternal anxiety.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Hen and Chickens
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Hen and Chickens · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10308–10309 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Hen and Chickens
Original source (English)
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