Body & self

Entrails

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of the human entrails, denotes horrible misery and despair, shutting out all hope of happiness.” Compare 2 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.

SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Entrails · Heading 721; source lines 8547–8565 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of the human entrails, denotes horrible misery and despair, shutting out all hope of happiness.

To dream of the entrails of a wild beast, signifies the overthrow of your mortal enemy.

To tear the entrails of another, signifies cruel persecutions to further your own interests.

To dream of your own entrails, the deepest despair will overwhelm you.

To dream of the entrails of your own child, denotes that the child's, or your own, dissolution is at hand. See Intestines.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Felix Fontaine · Entrails

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Entrails · Heading 227; source line 1935 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

This is a good dream for the poor, but to the rich it portends loss of riches. To sweethearts and beaus it shows that they will be happy in their loves.

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SOURCE CROSS-REFERENCE

Felix Fontaine · Guts

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Guts · Heading 327; source line 2430 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

(See Entrails.)

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