Craig wrote: “A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The earth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at variance with this interpretation of…”
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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
Earth · Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9841–9847 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The earth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at variance with this interpretation of the oneirocritics. It is only to be accounted for by the hypothesis that in their anxiety to escape all implication of idolatry and paganism, the gypsies reversed the symbols of the ancient creeds.
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