Miller wrote: “To dream that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese, denotes a death in your family.” 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
Geese · Heading 865; source lines 10013–10027 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese, denotes a death in your family. To see them swimming, denotes that your fortune is gradually increasing.
To see them in grassy places, denotes assured success. If you see them dead, you will suffer loss and displeasure.
For a lover, geese denotes the worthiness of his affianced.
If you are picking them, you will come into an estate. To eat them, denotes that your possessions are disputed.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Geese · Heading 289; source line 2245 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of these birds is generally a good omen: if you see them quietly feeding it denotes success and pleasure in your undertakings; but if they are alarmed and cackling, it foretells trouble and annoyance, but yet nothing that will seriously affect you.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Geese · Dream section, heading 214; source lines 916–919 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of geese is a forerunner of good; expect to see a long-absent friend. They denote success and riches to the dreamer in the furtherance of his pursuits. In love, they augur speedy marriage and fidelity in your sweetheart.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Geese · Dream section, heading 98; source lines 3754–3757 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Happiness, success; (to hear geese cackling) a profitable business deal will be quickly concluded.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Geese
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Geese · Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10098–10101 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
The cackling of geese, good luck and speedy success in business (Artemidorus). See Roman history of the cackling geese that saved the city.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Goose
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Goose · Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10125–10129 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A bad dream for a single man auguring a silly and incompetent wife (Raphael). Modern nursery lore represents the goose as an emblem of silliness, despite that fowl's illustrious reputation in both Rome and Egypt.
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