Miller wrote: “To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable weather and a fine yield of crops…” 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
Goat · Heading 881; source lines 10218–10233 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable weather and a fine yield of crops To see them otherwise, denotes cautious dealings and a steady increase of wealth.
If a billy goat butts you, beware that enemies do not get possession of your secrets or business plans.
For a woman to dream of riding a billy goat, denotes that she will be held in disrepute because of her coarse and ill-bred conduct.
If a woman dreams that she drinks goat's milk, she will marry for money and will not be disappointed.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Goat · Heading 299; source line 2289 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of seeing goats on a high place in a mountain, it shows that riches or honors await you: if the goats are merely on the road, or in a building, it predicts good luck.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Goat · Dream section, heading 193; source lines 4316–4319 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a white goat means prosperity; of a black goat, sickness.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Goat · Dream section, heading 106; source lines 3773–3776 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Bad luck, some misfortune, especially unlucky to sailors; (white goat) a profitable venture; (many goats) an inheritance.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Goat · Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10113–10115 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Enemies, trials and deceit (Artemidorus). An emblem of lewdness and wickedness in Christian symbolism.
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