Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts.” 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
Cellar · Heading 374; source lines 5176–5188 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts. You will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings from which you will fail to escape unless you control your will. It also indicates loss of property.
To see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will be offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source. If a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage from a speculator or gambler.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cellar · Heading 128; source line 1506 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are in a cellar, is a sign of sickness and an unlucky law suit.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cellar · Dream section, heading 96; source lines 4090–4093 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To be in a dark cellar means sickness or absence from home.
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
Cellar · Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9493–9496 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are in a cellar shows that you are threatened with illness (Gypsy); Schemer makes this dream a sign of abdominal disturbance.
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