Miller wrote: “To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion…” Compare 3 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
Chestnuts · Heading 402; source lines 5435–5445 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion through life.
Eating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness.
For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Chestnuts · Heading 136; source line 1536 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be fortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be fortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut burr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Chestnuts · Dream section, heading 102; source lines 4105–4107 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denote troubles at home.
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