Miller wrote: “To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed with supplications for help from the poor…” 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
Charity · Heading 390; source lines 5336–5350 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed with supplications for help from the poor and your business will be at standstill.
To dream of giving to charitable institutions, your right of possession to paving property will be disputed. Worries and ill health will threaten you.
For young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be annoyed by deceitful rivals. To dream that you are an object of charity, omens that you will succeed in life after hard times with misfortunes.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Charity · Heading 132; source line 1522 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a rich person to dream that he is charitable, signifies loss of fortune; if a lady dreams it, she will bestow her affections on an unworthy person.
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