Craig wrote: “Good for young folk to whom it signifies love and pleasure.”
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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
Fire-Brand or Torch · Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 9989–9992 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Fire-Brand or Torch
Original source (English)
Good for young folk to whom it signifies love and pleasure; to see another hold a fire-brand is an ill dream for one who would be secret (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious.
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Also indexed as: fire-brand · torch
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