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Corns

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Miller wrote: “To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some enemies are undermining you, and you will have…” Compare 3 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.

SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Corns · Heading 511; source lines 6396–6407 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some enemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress; but if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will inherit a large estate from some unknown source.

For a young woman to dream of having corns on her feet, indicates she will have to bear many crosses and be coldly treated by her sex.

Corns in the skin/feet are not the cereal corn.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Corns · Heading 161; source line 1632 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will grow rich proportionably to his corns.

Corns in the skin/feet are not the cereal corn.

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A. H. Noe

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

Corns · Dream section, heading 114; source lines 542–543 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will grow rich proportionately to his corns.

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