Craig wrote: “Clear and near the house, an honorable office in which the dreamer will practice benevolence.” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Brook · Dream section, heading 77; source lines 4048–4050 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Domestic happiness and friendship.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Brooks
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Brooks · Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9345–9355 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Clear and near the house, an honorable office in which the dreamer will practice benevolence; muddy brooks indicate loss; dried up brooks augur ruin to their owners (Artemidorus); the Bible justifies in a measure the promise of the dream of the brook: "And lo, my brook became a river, and my river a sea." — Eccles. xxv, i. "A little fountain became a river, and there was light and the sun and much water. This river is Esther, and the two dragons are I and Hamon." — From the Greek version of the book of Esther, quoted by Bayley.
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View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig · Stream
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Stream · Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12054–12055 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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