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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
Fingers · Heading 787; source lines 9216–9228 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing your fingers soiled or scratched, with the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and suffering. You will despair of making your way through life.
To see beautiful hands, with white fingers, denotes that your love will be requited and that you will become renowned for your benevolence.
To dream that your fingers are cut clean off, you will lose wealth and a legacy by the intervention of enemies.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Fingers · Heading 260; source line 2088 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good omen; you will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind and true.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Fingers · Dream section, heading 188; source lines 806–814 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good omen. You will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind and true. You will get money from a quarter that you least expect, and be successful in your enterprises. If you dream that they do not bleed, then it denotes damage by a variety of accidents. That lawsuits will attend you, and that you will be unsuccessful in most of your pursuits. In love you will not succeed with your present sweetheart, who prefers another. To dream you lose your fingers, denotes the loss of friends, servants, goods, trade and sweethearts.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Fingers · Dream section, heading 169; source lines 4258–4260 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of injured fingers denotes grief.
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
Finger · Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9976–9978 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of losing one, trouble (Gypsy). A dream due to physical stimuli, probably gout, etc.
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