Miller wrote: “To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you.” Compare 5 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
Bull · Heading 297; source lines 4289–4304 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you.
If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of marriage, but, by declining this offer, she will better her fortune.
To see a bull goring a person, misfortune from unwisely using another's possessions will overtake you.
To dream of a white bull, denotes that you will lift yourself up to a higher plane of life than those who persist in making material things their God. It usually denotes gain.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Bull · Heading 97; source line 1385 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you have been gored, or received some hurt from a bull, shows you are likely to receive some harm from a great man. To dream you are pursued by a bull, denotes loss of friends and ill reports; if in love, your sweetheart will be in danger, and you will narrowly escape some misfortune.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Bulls · Dream section, heading 43; source lines 276–280 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are pursued by a bull, denotes that many injurious reports will be spread on your character. If you dream the bull gores you, or tosses you, then expect shortly to lose your liberty; it denotes that some person in power will do you an injury.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Bull · Dream section, heading 79; source lines 4052–4054 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes unexpected gain.
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
Bull · Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9360–9368 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Violent enemies and slander are forecast by this dream (Artemidorus); an erotic dream (Freud and Jung); the Assyrian symbol of royal authority and of the sun, sacred also to the Egyptians and the Romans; its modern symbolism is strength, yet throughout the whole of the gypsy dream interpretation it bears an evil meaning, due either to the legend of the golden calf, or to the apparently evil construction of all erotic and phallic symbols.
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