Fontaine wrote: “To see, in your dream, one or more houses burning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Burning · Heading 98; source line 1391 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Fire.) To see, in your dream, one or more houses burning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that they will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will be augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down, the dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To dream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be foiled. Play your age first.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Burning · Dream section, heading 44; source lines 280–287 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of burning doth imply, A sudden danger, ripe and nigh; Of all escapes you then beware, For though fate threatens, it may spare.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Burning · Dream section, heading 29; source lines 3582–3584 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Houses, etc.) Riches and prosperity.
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