Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity…” Compare 4 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
Cattle · Heading 366; source lines 5078–5112 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness through a congenial and pleasant companion.
To see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil all your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work. Correct your habits after this dream.
To see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers of command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.
To see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the successful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain. To a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer from the one of her choice.
To dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune is in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that you are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity, or your property from neglect of business.
To see young calves in your dream, you will become a great favorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person. For business, this dream indicates profit from sales. For a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected. If the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that the object sought will be much harder to obtain.
Long-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies. See Calves.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cattle · Heading 126; source line 1495 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Pasture, Pound, and Yoke.) To dream you see cattle feeding, denotes great prosperity, and unexpected success; to a lover, it foretells a happy marriage, with many children; and to a married man, it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy; to dream you are driving cattle, denotes that you will become rich by industry; if you see fat cattle, it denotes a plentiful year; if you see lean and hungry cattle in your dream, it denotes scarcity and famine.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cattle · Dream section, heading 82; source lines 418–425 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see cattle feeding, denotes great prosperity and unexpected success; to a lover it foretells a happy marriage, with many children, and to a man it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy. To dream you are driving cattle denotes that you will become rich by industry. If you are in love it shows that you have many rivals, but that you will distance them all. To dream you see fat cattle also denotes a plentiful year. To dream you see lean and hungry cattle, denotes scarcity and famine.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Cattle
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Cattle · Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9477–9480 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of prosperity (Gypsy); "cattle over a thousand hills," we read as the symbol of success in the Old Testament. A sexual dream, declares Freud.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Herd of Cattle
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Herd of Cattle · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10320–10320 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Herd of Cattle
Original source (English)
See Cattle.
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