Artemidorus wrote: “To sée in a dreame Dive-dappers and Cormorants, and other such like birds of the Sea, is perill to Marriners, but not death: to others…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Dive-dappers and Cormorants. · Book 2, encoded section 80 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To sée in a dreame Dive-dappers and Cormorants, and other such like birds of the Sea, is perill to Marriners, but not death: to others they signifye theyr friends and whores, deceivers, and wicked perjured Pyrates, which haunt Rivers and the Sea. And if in dreaming he sées these Byrds, and lose any thing, he shall never recover it againe. Duckes also and Drakes, and other Byrds of the River, signifye the like.
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