Miller wrote: “If you see a hare escaping from you in a dream, you will lose something valuable in a mysterious way.” Compare 3 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
Hare · Heading 933; source lines 10872–10894 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you see a hare escaping from you in a dream, you will lose something valuable in a mysterious way. If you capture one, you will be the victor in a contest.
If you make pets of them, you will have an orderly but unintelligent companion.
A dead hare, betokens death to some friend. Existence will be a prosy affair.
To see hares chased by dogs, denotes trouble and contentions among your friends, and you will concern yourself to bring about friendly relations.
If you dream that you shoot a hare, you will be forced to use violent measures to maintain your rightful possessions. See Rabbit.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Hare · Dream section, heading 114; source lines 3797–3800 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Alive) Friendship: (dead) good luck: (hare running) a lengthy journey.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Hare · Dreams interpreted, passage 20; source lines 167–168 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream you hunt a hare, but cannot take her, denotes the loss of some matter you are in earnest pursuit of.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Hare” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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