Miller wrote: “To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares.” 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
Grapes · Heading 898; source lines 10384–10399 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares; but if you only see them hanging in profuseness among the leaves, you will soon attain to eminent positions and will be able to impart happiness to others. For a young woman, this dream is one of bright promise. She will have her most ardent wish gratified.
To dream of riding on horseback and passing musca-dine bushes and gathering and eating some of its fruit, denotes profitable employment and the realization of great desires. If there arises in your mind a question of the poisonous quality of the fruit you are eating, there will come doubts and fears of success, but they will gradually cease to worry you.
View source edition Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Grapes · Heading 306; source line 2325 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an abundance of grapes is a good omen, as is also a dream that you eat grapes of a pleasant flavor; but if the grapes are sour and broken, it shows that you will have sorrow. If a young girl dreams she has a present of beautiful grapes, she will marry well within the year, and be prolific of children.
View source edition A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Grapes · Dream section, heading 222; source lines 956–959 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of grapes, foretells to the maiden that her husband will be a cheerful companion and a great songster. They denote much happiness in marriage and success in trade. If you are in love, they augur a speedy union between you and your sweetheart.
View source edition Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Grapes · Dream section, heading 196; source lines 4324–4326 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see or eat grapes denotes enjoyment and plenty.
View source edition 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
Grapes · Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10149–10153 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Eating grapes, cheerfulness, profit; treading grapes, the overthrow of enemies; gathering white grapes, gain; gathering black grapes, damage (Artemidorus). The symbol of joy, happiness and fertility.
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