Miller wrote: “Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure, and some imprudence will impair the…” Compare 2 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
Buttermilk · Heading 310; source lines 4419–4433 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure, and some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer.
To give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still.
To dream that you are drinking buttermilk made into oyster soup, denotes that you will be called on to do some very repulsive thing, and ill luck will confront you. There are quarrels brewing and friendships threatened. If you awaken while you are drinking it, by discreet maneuvering you may effect a pleasant understanding of disagreements.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Buttermilk · Heading 103; source line 1414 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Losses from an extension of business. To the sick it is a sign of speedy convalescence.
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