Miller wrote: “To dream of dice, is indicative of unfortunate speculations, and consequent misery and despair.” Compare 6 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
Dice · Heading 623; source lines 7462–7470 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of dice, is indicative of unfortunate speculations, and consequent misery and despair. It also foretells contagious sickness.
For a girl to dream that she sees her lover throwing dice, indicates his unworthiness.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Dice · Heading 190; source line 1752 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are playing at dice, backgammon, or draughts, denotes much good to the dreamer, in either love, marriage, or business. To a young girl, engaged to be married, dreaming of dice foretells that her lover will be wild and not of much account.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Play at Dice or Tables. · Book 3, encoded section 121 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dreame to play at Dice, or Tables, is noyse, and debate for money. It is alwayes good to win: to the sick it is ill, if one gives over in play: the Dice or Tables simply séene in a dreame, is sedition and noyse, but losse of them is end of noise and sedition: to sée a childe play at Dice or Tables, and Counters, is not ill: to a perfect man it is ill to play at Dice, except he hope for some succession, by the death of another, for the Dice are made of the bones of the dead.
The source heading “Play at Dice or Tables” is shown on the Dice page: artemidorus dice section
View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Dice · Dream section, heading 131; source lines 592–594 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are playing at dice or back-gammon, denotes much good to the dreamer, in either love, marriage or trade.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Dice · Dream section, heading 133; source lines 4174–4176 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of dice indicates scandal and dishonor.
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
Dice · Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9753–9755 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of enmity, quarrels and business vicissitudes (Gypsy); symbolic interpretation moral and obvious.
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