Miller wrote: “This is a very propitious dream indeed. It gives promise of a happy and well advanced life to the…” Compare 4 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
Grass · Heading 899; source lines 10399–10415 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is a very propitious dream indeed. It gives promise of a happy and well advanced life to the tradesman, rapid accumulation of wealth, fame to literary and artistic people, and a safe voyage through the turbulent sea of love is promised to all lovers.
To see a rugged mountain beyond the green expanse of grass, is momentous of remote trouble.
If in passing through green grass, you pass withered places, it denotes your sickness or embarrassments in business.
To be a perfect dream, the grass must be clear of obstruction or blemishes. If you dream of withered grass, the reverse is predicted.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Grass · Heading 307; source line 2331 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Green grass, denotes long life; to cut grass, great trouble. 14,
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Grass · Dream section, heading 197; source lines 4326–4328 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Indicates long life.
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
Grass · Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10154–10159 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of walking through fields of grass signifies happiness and fortune; to dream of grasses such as sorrel lettuce, etc., denotes grief and embarrassment. To eat them sorrow and sickness. Dead or withered grass denotes misfortune (Gypsy),
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