Food & plants

Butter

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out.” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Butter · Heading 307; source lines 4387–4398 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions, wealth and knowledge.

To eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles of manual labor.

To sell butter, denotes small gain.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Butter · Heading 102; source line 1411 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

If you eat it, you will be surprised by some good fortune, but mixed with sadness.

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