Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management.” Compare 5 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
Clouds · Heading 439; source lines 5784–5795 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management. If rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.
To see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them, you will be successful after trouble has been your companion.
To see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys and small advancements.
View source edition Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Clouds · Heading 148; source line 1588 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of affairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love
View source edition Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Clouds. · Book 2, encoded section 99 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
WHite clouds, is prosperity, moūting from the earth on high, is a voyage, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets. Red or inflamed, is ill issue of affayrs, smoaky, dark, or obscure, is ill time or anger.
View source edition A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Clouds · Dream section, heading 100; source lines 506–510 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity; clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of dark and obscure clouds, shows an ill time of anger.
View source edition 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
Clouds · Printed p. 208–209; NLM OCR lines 9569–9578 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of heavy clouds signifies threatened misfortune; light, opaque clouds denote mystery (Gypsy); they are sometimes symbolic of the majesty of Jehovah, at other times of doubt and obscurity.
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