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Noe wrote: “To dream one plays at ball or top, signifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury.”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

A. H. Noe

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

Games · Dream section, heading 225; source lines 969–972 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream one plays at ball or top, signifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury. To leap, run, or dance, signifies prosperity in affairs; but to dance without music, foretells want of money.

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