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Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing fruit ripening among its foliage, usually foretells to the dreamer a prosperous future.” 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

Fruit · Heading 841; source lines 9798–9811 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of seeing fruit ripening among its foliage, usually foretells to the dreamer a prosperous future. Green fruit signifies disappointed efforts or hasty action.

For a young woman to dream of eating green fruit, indicates her degradation and loss of inheritance. Eating fruit is unfavorable usually.

To buy or sell fruit, denotes much business, but not very remunerative.

To see or eat ripe fruit, signifies uncertain fortune and pleasure.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Fruit · Heading 278; source line 2192 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of fruit which is ripe and fair to look upon is an excellent omen, as it foretells the most perfect success in all worldly matters: if the fruit is green or defective, it indicates trouble with your success. If you dream of eating fruit that proves to be sour or rotten, it shows disappointment: if a young girl dreams this, it is a sign that her lover will deceive her.

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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription

Of Fruits. · Book 1, encoded section 55 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dreame of Summer Apples, which are sweet and ripe is good, for they signifie a good time and joyfulnesse. Sowre Apples, or other, signifie noise and sedition: Quinces signify heavines. Almonds, Walnuts, and Filberts, are trouble and anger. Figs in their season are good, especially the white: out of season they are calumnies and detractions. Raysins in season▪ and out of season are good, and most often they signifye good by women. Pomegranets signify stripes, by reason of their colour. Peaches, Cherries, and other such fruits being ripe, signifye deceitfull pleasures, when one dreams he eats them in season, but being out of season, they signifie travail and labor in vain. Mulberries signifie the same that pomegranats do: to sée the mulberry trée, signifies linage and generation to him that sees it, but it must not be plucked up, or rooted out: for then it is losse of children: Peares of the last yeare are good, wilde Peares are good onely to Husbandmen.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Fruits · Dream section, heading 200; source lines 861–868 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

If you dream of fruits when out of season, or that you are gathering them when green, denotes sickness. If you dream they are rotten, it foretells poverty. To dream of gathering ripe fruit, when there is plenty, betokens happiness and riches, and the speedy receipt of money. If you gather fruit from an old withered tree, it is a sign that you will unexpectedly inherit the effects of some aged person. To dream you have made yourself sick by eating fruit, is a sorrowful omen.

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Anonymous

Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription

Fruit · Dream section, heading 94; source lines 3742–3745 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Usually a good dream, according to kind of fruit; (dreamer eating or throwing away fruit) bad sign.

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