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Grapes

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Miller wrote: “To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares.” Compare 5 historical dream books.

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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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