Butcher

Butcher · Heading 306; source lines 4380–4387 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents.

Butcher · Heading 101; source line 1407 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

If, in your dream, you see a butcher killing any animal, it is a sign of the death of a friend or near relative. If a farmer dreams of seeing sheep killed, he will probably have a prolific flock.

Of Butcher[illegible passage]. · Book 3, encoded section 161 · Text transcription · marked gaps

Original source (English)

BVtchers which knock downe, kill, cut and divide beasts, and after sell them, signifie danger and hurt, and death to the s [illegible passage] ck, for it is their calling to divide and sell dead beasts: to such as are doubtfull, it is greater doubt, to captives and bondmen it is issue of their evils.

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Butchers · Dream section, heading 45; source lines 287–290 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of seeing butchers is in general a very unlucky omen; it always foretells some injury to the dreamer. If you see them cutting up meat some of your friends will be hanged, and you will experience much misery and poverty.

Butcher · Dream section, heading 80; source lines 4054–4056 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Foretells sorrow thru the loss of a friend.

Butcher · Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9382–9385 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that he cuts up meat denotes trouble and sickness (Gypsy); probably a dream of physical stimuli originating in the organ that the butcher seems to be cutting.