Miller wrote: “To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant encounters with your business…” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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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
Fight · Heading 782; source lines 9156–9184 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant encounters with your business opponents, and law suits threaten you.
To see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money. For women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip.
For a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness.
To dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you will lose your right to property.
To whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance, win honor and wealth in spite of opposition.
To dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many worries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream, yet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted.
To dream that you are on your way home and negroes attack you with razors, you will be disappointed in your business, you will be much vexed with servants, and home associations will be unpleasant.
To dream that you are fighting negroes, you will be annoyed by them or by some one of low character.
View source edition Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Fight · Heading 258; source line 2079 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of being engaged in a fight, it foretells to a man of business that he will soon engage in some new enterprise that will be successful; to a laboring man, it predicts increased pay.
View source edition A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Fighting · Dream section, heading 184; source lines 780–786 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are fighting, denotes to the lover that you will lose the object of your affections through a foolish quarrel. It also forebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of character and property. After such a dream, you are urgently recommended to quit your present situation, because such a dream indicates that you will not prosper in it. To the sailor it denotes storm and shipwreck, with disappointment in love.
The source heading “Fighting” is shown on the Fight page: same topic
View source editionAnonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Fighting · Dream section, heading 25; source lines 244–251 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are fighting denotes to the lover that you will lose the object of your affections through a foolish quarrel; it also forebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of character and property. After such a dream you should leave your present situation, because such a dream indicates that you will not prosper in it; to the sailor it denotes storms and shipwreck, with disappointment in love.
The source heading “Fighting” is shown on the Fight page: same topic
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The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Fight · Dreams interpreted, passage 11; source lines 141–142 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream that one fights and overcomes, denotes success in what you are contending for, or escaping dangers.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fight” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Fight · Dreams interpreted, passage 63; source lines 293–294 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream that you fight and overcome, signifies you will get the better in law suits, or other controversies.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fight” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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