Fontaine wrote: “To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to dream one is carried.” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Carrying · Heading 121; source line 1476 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to dream one is carried; to be carried by a woman, a child, or a poor person, means profit and success; by a rich person, the contrary. 4,
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of carrying another, or being carried. · Book 2, encoded section 110 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
FOr to carry another, is better then to be carried, inasmuch as it is more honour to give, then to take. For he which carrieth, representeth him which doth good, or a pleasure, and he which is carried, him which receiveth: to be carried by a woman, a childe, or a poore person, is meanes of profit, and supportment. It is good for a servant to be carryed by his Master, and for the mean man to be carryed by the rich.
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