Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees, denotes thrift and healthful conditions…” 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
Dirt · Heading 628; source lines 7511–7523 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees, denotes thrift and healthful conditions abound for the dreamer.
To see your clothes soiled with unclean dirt, you will be forced to save yourself from contagious diseases by leaving your home or submitting to the strictures of the law.
To dream that some one throws dirt upon you, denotes that enemies will try to injure your character.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Dirt · Heading 194; source line 1772 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of dirty dirt or mud, signifies that some one will speak ill of you. If it is clean sand or soil, and you do not get befouled with it, it is a sign of thrift and good fortune. If some one throws dirt on you, it foretells that you will be abused.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Durt. · Book 3, encoded section 140 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of Durt, it signifieth Sicknesse, or dishonour.
The source heading “Durt” is shown on the Dirt page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)
View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Dirt · Dream section, heading 132; source lines 594–596 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of dirt signifies sickness and dishonor. To dream you fall in the dirt, signifies that you shall be treacherously dealt with.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Dirt · Dream section, heading 134; source lines 4176–4178 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes sickness.
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Also indexed as: of durt
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