Artemidorus wrote: “To dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning: using gentle…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of a Father in Law, and Mother in Law. · Book 3, encoded section 137 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning: using gentle spéech, and good entertainment, are vain hopes and deceits. Sometimes they signifie voyages; for the naturall father, and mother, represent the house: the father or mother in law, strangers.
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