Miller wrote: “To dream of flour, denotes a frugal but happy life.” Compare 3 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
Flour · Heading 813; source lines 9450–9459 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of flour, denotes a frugal but happy life. For a young woman to dream that she sees flour on herself, denotes that she will be ruled by her husband, and that her life will be full of pleasant cares.
To dream of dealing in flour, denotes hazardous speculations.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Flour · Heading 268; source line 2136 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Mill.) To dream that you buy flour is a bad omen, and portends sickness, or the death of a near friend.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Flour · Dream section, heading 81; source lines 3712–3714 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Death of a relative bringing a legacy.
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