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Miller wrote: “To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ your time if you would keep supplies…” Compare 4 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.

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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

Cart · Heading 349; source lines 4899–4912 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ your time if you would keep supplies for your family.

To see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends.

To dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success in business and other aspirations.

For lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite of the machinations of rivals.

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Felix Fontaine

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

Cart · Heading 122; source line 1481 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of being tied to a cart to draw like a horse, denotes servitude and pain; but to dream that you are carried in a cart, the contrary.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Cart · Dream section, heading 108; source lines 526–529 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of being tied to a cart, to draw like an horse or an ox, denotes servitude and pain to everybody; but to dream that you are carried in a cart or coach, the contrary.

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Astra Cielo

Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917

Cart · Dream section, heading 92; source lines 4081–4083 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Indicates sickness; with a horse before it, disgrace.

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