Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting with friends from a distance, and…” Compare 4 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
Flute · Heading 815; source lines 9482–9490 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting with friends from a distance, and profitable engagements.
For a young woman to dream of playing a flute, denotes that she will fall in love because of her lover's engaging manners.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Flute · Heading 270; source line 2147 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you play or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble and contention with your friends.
If your kind fancy you present With playing on an instrument, Your sweetheart shall not you disdain, But yield true love for love again.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Flute · Dream section, heading 178; source lines 763–765 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you play or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble and contention.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Flute · Dream section, heading 177; source lines 4278–4280 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To play or hear a flute means news of a birth.
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