Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you,…” 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.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Cavern or Cave · Heading 370; source lines 5133–5146 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because of adversaries. Work and health is threatened.
To be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged from those who are very dear to you.
For a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend, denotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer the loss of true friends.
The source heading “Cavern or Cave” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate
View source editionFelix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cavern, or Cave · Heading 127; source line 1504 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Grotto.)
The source heading “Cavern or Cave” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate
View source editionAstra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cave · Dream section, heading 95; source lines 4088–4090 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To be in a cave denotes loss.
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
Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt · Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9481–9487 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt
Original source (English)
Obscurity and misfortune are interpreted from these symbols (Gypsy); the ancient and sacred symbolism of caves, grottoes, etc., was lost upon the Jews who regarded them with horror, while popular tradition peopled them with dragons and other evil creatures.
The source heading “Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate
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