Miller wrote: “To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders.” 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
Chains · Heading 377; source lines 5228–5239 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed in breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant business or social engagement.
To see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious.
Seeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Chain · Heading 130; source line 1512 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of gold chains it is a sign of a wedding; if a girl dreams she is presented with one, it is a sure sign of a speedy marriage. Such a dream to a man in business predicts that he will be prevented from doing something that he specially desires to do.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Chains · Dream section, heading 102; source lines 512–516 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
pearls, precious stones, earrings, &c., and all adornings of the hands and necks of women, are good dreams to the fair sex; to widows and maids they signify marriage; and to those that have husbands and children, purchases and riches; for as women are provided with these deckings, so shall they be stored with husbands, children and goods.
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
Chains · Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9505–9508 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream warning you against the conspiracy of enemies, from which, however, you will escape (Artemidorus). Symbol obvious.
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