Miller wrote: “It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms.” Compare 4 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
Cabbage · Heading 313; source lines 4468–4477 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms. To dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love and infidelity in wedlock.
To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cabbage · Heading 106; source line 1424 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of cabbage, signifies very bad news from abroad.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cabbage · Dream section, heading 81; source lines 4056–4059 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Indicates long life and happiness.
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
Cabbage · Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9397–9401 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To see them, health and long life; to eat them, sorrow, loss and illness (Gypsy); the first part of the dream, like all dreams of growing things, is fortunate, the latter plainly interpreted by rules pertaining to physical stimuli.
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