Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing chimneys, denotes a very displeasing incident will occur in your life.” 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
Chimney · Heading 409; source lines 5517–5534 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing chimneys, denotes a very displeasing incident will occur in your life. Hasty intelligence of sickness will be borne you. A tumble down chimney, denotes sorrow and likely death in your family. To see one overgrown with ivy or other vines, foretells that happiness will result from sorrow or loss of relatives.
To see a fire burning in a chimney, denotes much good is approaching you. To hide in a chimney corner, denotes distress and doubt will assail you. Business will appear gloomy.
For a young woman to dream that she is going down a chimney, foretells she will be guilty of some impropriety which will cause consternation among her associates. To ascend a chimney, shows that she will escape trouble which will be planned for her.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Chimney · Heading 140; source line 1555 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sitting in the chimney corner, to a maid, shows speedy marriage; if there is a fire burning brightly, you will become heir to some money.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Chimney · Dream section, heading 40; source lines 3608–3610 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Good luck, the higher the better.
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
Chimney · Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9529–9531 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of one, especially if a fire be lighted therein, denotes domestic joy (Artemidorus).
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