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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
Gooseberries · Heading 890; source lines 10322–10335 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of gathering gooseberries, is a sign of happiness after trouble, and a favorable indication of brighter prospects in one's business affairs.
If you are eating green gooseberries, you will make a mistake in your course to pleasure, and be precipitated into the vertex of sensationalism. Bad results are sure to follow the tasting of green gooseberries.
To see gooseberries in a dream, foretells you will escape some dreaded work. For a young woman to eat them, foretells she will be slightly disappointed in her expectations.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Gooseberries · Heading 303; source line 2308 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of gooseberries indicate many children, chiefly sons, and the accomplishment of your present pursuits. To the maiden they foretell a cheerful husband; they also denote happiness in marriage, and success in trade.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Gooseberries · Dream section, heading 221; source lines 952–956 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of gooseberries, indicates many children, chiefly sons, and an accomplishment of your present pursuits. To the sailor, they declare dangers in his next voyage. To the maiden, a proving husband, and to the man, a rakish wife.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Gooseberries · Dream section, heading 109; source lines 3782–3787 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Time and trouble spent only for the benefit of others.
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
Gooseberries · Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10130–10133 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Many offspring and the accomplishment of plans are denoted by this dream (Raphael). The ancient symbol of reproductiveness and fertility.
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