Miller wrote: “To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend.” Compare 3 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
Cricket · Heading 549; source lines 6737–6744 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend.
To see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cricket · Dream section, heading 122; source lines 4150–4152 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Is a sign of hospitality and a visit.
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
Cricket · Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9654–9658 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Pleasant meeting of old friends symbolized by this dream. Superstition holds this insect as a pleasant omen. Pliny mentions it as much esteemed among the ancient magicians.
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