Miller wrote: “To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety.” Compare 2 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
Chaff · Heading 376; source lines 5218–5228 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety.
Women dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent in useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety and causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained them without work on their part.
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
Chaff · Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9502–9504 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of abortive or worthless schemes (Artemidorus); symbolism obvious.
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