Artemidorus wrote: “To see or finde Fishes dead in the Sea is not good, for it betokens vain hopes.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of dead Fishes. · Book 2, encoded section 81 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see or finde Fishes dead in the Sea is not good, for it betokens vain hopes. But it is better to catch them or buy them any way. Also it is good to eat them drest, and according to their dressing you must judge as followeth. To see a Fish in his Chamber is ill to a Master, and to the sick. A woman with childe dreaming that she hath a Fish in stead of a Childe, according to the opinion of the Ancients, she shall have a dumbe childe: but as I have known, it signifyes more often she shall have a dying childe, or of little life.
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