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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
Cards · Heading 347; source lines 4873–4892 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will meet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up. Small ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you in difficulties of a serious nature.
If you lose at cards you will encounter enemies. If you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law, but will have trouble in so doing.
If a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards, she will have cause to question his good intentions.
In social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner in life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining your absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings; spades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate.
Felix Fontaine · Cards
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cards · Heading 118; source line 1465 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Playing at cards, dice, or any other game in a dream, shows the party will be fortunate in love affairs; for the tables and cards allude to love.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cards · Dream section, heading 80; source lines 403–413 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are playing at cards is a sure prognostic that you will be in love, and speedily married. If you hold a great many picture cards, your marriage will be the means of making you rich and happy. If your cards are mostly diamonds, the person you marry will be of a sour and disagreeable temper. If they are mostly hearts, your marriage will cement love, and you will be very happy and have many children. If they are mostly clubs, you will get money by your marriage. If they are mostly spades, your marriage will turn out very unhappy and your children will be unfaithful and subject to many hardships. If you are in expectation of a place, you will get it, and if you are in business you will be successful.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cards · Dream section, heading 90; source lines 4077–4079 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To play cards means a successful marriage.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Cards · Dream section, heading 34; source lines 3596–3598 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Playing at) Speedy marriage.
Felix Fontaine · Whist
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Whist · Heading 861; source line 5243 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
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