Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy prospects for business.” Compare 2 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
Crane · Heading 540; source lines 6660–6669 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy prospects for business. To a woman, it is significant of disappointment; but to see them flying southward, prognosticates a joyful meeting of absent friends, and that lovers will remain faithful.
To see them fly to the ground, events of unusual moment are at hand.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Crane
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Crane · Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9638–9645 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting wickedness on the part of the dreamer (Gypsy); the symbolism here is probably derived from the well-known destructiveness of these birds among the fish and smaller varieties of their own species. To the Egyptians it was a symbol of the dawn and of regeneration, while to the Japanese it denotes longevity. Freudians regard it as bearing an erotic significance.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Heron
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Heron · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10322–10323 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
See Crane.
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