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Comfort

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Artemidorus wrote: “If you dreame you have comfort of any one: to the rich and happy, it is mishap and injury: to the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription

Of Comfort. · Book 3, encoded section 146 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

If you dreame you have comfort of any one: to the rich and happy, it is mishap and injury: to the poore and afflicted, ayde and comfort.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Comfort · Dream section, heading 111; source lines 533–535 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream you have comforts of any one, betokens to the rich and happy, injury and mishap; but to the poor and afflicted, aid and comfort.

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