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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity and happy union.” Compare 3 historical dream books.

ATTRIBUTED HISTORICAL WRITING

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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

Dates · Heading 595; source lines 7154–7160 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity and happy union; but to eat them as prepared for commerce, they are omens of want and distress.

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Felix Fontaine

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

Dates · Heading 181; source line 1714 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Dates denote many enemies, and you will receive much injury by a person you little expect.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

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

Dates · Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9734–9736 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

Either strong and powerful enemies or admirers of the opposite sex ( Artemidorus); an erotic dream (Freud).

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