Miller wrote: “To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face…” Compare 5 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
Fairy · Heading 748; source lines 8834–8839 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Fairy · Heading 237; source line 1978 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of seeing a fairy, you will meet a woman, who will seduce you from the path of propriety, and make your life vexatious.
To dream of blust’ring storms of wind, Does show inconstancy of mind; But if you dream of elves and fairies, Beware the girls and night-vagaries.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Fairy · Dream section, heading 202; source lines 876–880 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a maiden to dream she sees a fairy, shows she will soon change her present state by becoming the wife of a good husband. It is good for women under any circumstances to dream of fairies, but it denotes evil to men, and no man should undertake any important matter for several days after, or it will surely end in his being disappointed.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Fairy · Dream section, heading 70; source lines 3688–3690 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
All dreams of fairies are good omens--success and riches.
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
Fairy · Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9913–9916 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of riches and independence to the poor, to the rich temptation (Gypsy). The Providence of nursery legend and mythology, their dream symbolism is apparent.
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