Miller wrote: “To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability and unselfishness.” Compare 6 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
Cherries · Heading 399; source lines 5413–5419 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability and unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much desired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cherries · Heading 137; source line 1542 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ripe cherries foretells that you will hear good news, or that some one will do you a favor. After such a dream you can easily borrow money if you wish to. If the cherries are green or mixed, your news will be a mixture of good and bad.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cherries · Dream section, heading 124; source lines 575–577 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of cherries is a disappointment in life, vexation in the married state and slight in love.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cherries · Dream section, heading 100; source lines 4100–4103 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To eat cherries denotes love. To gather them, faithfulness.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Cherries · Dream section, heading 38; source lines 3604–3606 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Good news, pleasure and enjoyment.
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
Cherries · Printed p. 207–208; NLM OCR lines 9516–9524 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To see them, health; to gather them, deception by a woman; to eat them, love (Artemidorus). "Cherry is identical with Cheres, the Greek for Grace, cognate with our charity or love." — Bayley.
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