Miller wrote: “To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss.” Compare 4 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
Ditch · Heading 637; source lines 7609–7614 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss; but if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ditches · Heading 196; source line 1780 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other eminences, foretells danger and misfortune: expect thieves to rob your dwelling, or that your children will be undutiful, and bring you into trouble; if you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry your present sweetheart: if you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods, and other trouble: to farmers, it foretells accidents to their live stock, loss of sheep, &c.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Ditches · Dream section, heading 133; source lines 596–601 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of deep ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other eminences, surely foretells danger and misfortune. Expect thieves to rob your dwelling; that your children will be undutiful and bring you into trouble. If you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry your present sweetheart. If you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods, if not of liberty.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ditch · Dream section, heading 137; source lines 4182–4185 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing or falling into a ditch foretells bankruptcy.
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