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Cane

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3 historical accounts to explore.

IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement will be made toward fortune.” Compare 3 historical dream books.

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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.

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

Cane · Heading 330; source lines 4647–4653 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement will be made toward fortune. To see it cut, denotes absolute failure in all undertakings.

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Felix Fontaine

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

Cane · Heading 116; source line 1457 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of a cane, is considered a most inauspicious dream; and some authors forbid the dreamer to undertake any business on that day.

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Astra Cielo

Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917

Cane · Dream section, heading 88; source lines 4073–4075 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Signifies dissipation and waste.

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