Miller wrote: “Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be…” Compare 5 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
Cakes · Heading 318; source lines 4511–4524 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her.
To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper.
Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business. For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them or eating them.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cakes · Heading 108; source line 1430 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Thick.) If a housewife dreams of making round cakes, it predicts that her husband will have a good store of luck and will make her a present. To dream of eating cakes, is also a favorable dream. 18,
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cakes · Dream section, heading 95; source lines 476–482 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are eating cakes, denotes happiness and prosperity.
Dream that cakes you knead and make, You thrive and many profits take.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cakes · Dream section, heading 83; source lines 4062–4064 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denote prosperity.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Cakes · Dream section, heading 32; source lines 3592–3594 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of any kind of cakes is a good omen.
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