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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
Dumb · Heading 670; source lines 8070–8076 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being dumb, indicates your inability to persuade others into your mode of thinking, and using them for your profit by your glibness of tongue. To the dumb, it denotes false friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Dumb · Heading 211; source line 1855 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream that you are dumb, or that any of your speaking friends are so afflicted, it foretells sickness or misfortune. But should you dream that a deaf mute of your acquaintance speaks, it foretells joy and gladness at something that will happen.
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