Miller wrote: “To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but honest person.” Compare 4 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
Clams · Heading 428; source lines 5674–5682 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but honest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity.
For a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart, foretells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Clams · Heading 145; source line 1573 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To a lover, this dream is a sign he will be successful with his sweetheart; if the clams are large, it signifies he will get through the world easy, but if they are small he may get into difficulties, and be caught in a tight place.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Clams · Dream section, heading 108; source lines 4119–4121 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denote closeness and parsimony.
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
Clam · Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9551–9554 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of digging for them is a good omen, denoting thrift (Gypsy); evidently a laudable desire to symbolize labor.
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