Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot…” Compare 3 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
Captive · Heading 343; source lines 4814–4827 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune will befall you.
To dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits and persons of lowest status.
For a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she will have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others; or she may be censured for her indiscretion.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Captive · Dream section, heading 89; source lines 4075–4077 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are in prison is a sign of luck.
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
Captive · Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9437–9442 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A sign of insolvency and imprisonment for debt (Raphael). A pitiful significance to the dreamer of the days of imprisonment for debt, and undoubtedly originating in the subconsciousness. It is also translated as a dream of a bad wife or husband, and here again the symbolism is plain.
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