Miller wrote: “To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want, but life will be an uphill affair.” Compare 4 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
Digging · Heading 626; source lines 7487–7498 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want, but life will be an uphill affair.
To dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn in fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be harrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings. Water filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most strenuous efforts things will not bend to your will.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Digging · Heading 192; source line 1761 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of digging in clean and healthy ground, is a sign of thrift, and good luck generally: if the ground be dirty or wet, it shows trouble: if you are digging for gold, and find large and rich lumps, it shows you’ll have some good luck, but if the product is meagre, or if you don’t find any, it foretells disappointment. If you lose any of your tools it is a sign of a quarrel.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Digging · Dream section, heading 51; source lines 3635–3637 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Good luck with perseverance.
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
Digging · Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9756–9761 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dig in clean ground denotes thrift and good luck; in dirty or wet ground, trouble; to dig for gold and find large lumps, good fortune; to fail to find it, disappointment (Raphael). Most dreams of honest toil are of favorable augury.
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