Miller wrote: “This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity.” Compare 5 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.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Cucumber · Heading 571; source lines 6950–6956 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity. For the sick to dream of serving cucumbers, denotes their speedy recovery. For the married, a pleasant change.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Cucumbers · Heading 173; source line 1680 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of these vegetables, signifies that your business will not be very prosperous; for a sick person to dream of them, foretells a speedy recovery.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Cucumbers · Dream section, heading 125; source lines 577–581 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of cucumbers, denotes recovery to the sick, and that you will speedily fall in love, or that if you are in love, you will marry the object of your affection. It also denotes moderate success in trade. To the sailor it foretells a pleasant voyage and a sweetheart in a distant climate.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Cucumber · Dream section, heading 128; source lines 4162–4164 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Is a sign of serious illness.
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
Cucumber · Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9702–9705 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream auguring serious indisposition (Gypsy); sensory stimuli would account for this dream and its interpretation.
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