Miller wrote: “A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious…” Compare 3 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.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Hatchet · Heading 943; source lines 10975–10981 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious persons. If it is rusty or broken, you will have grief over wayward people.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Hatchet · Dream section, heading 117; source lines 3804–3806 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A solution near to existing difficulties.
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
Hatchet · Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10259–10260 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A warning to expect peril or death (Gypsy).
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Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings. Updated 2026-10-12. Read our approach and sources.