Miller wrote: “To dream of a hawk, foretells you will be cheated in some way by intriguing persons.” 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
Hawk · Heading 945; source lines 10991–11009 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a hawk, foretells you will be cheated in some way by intriguing persons. To shoot one, foretells you will surmount obstacles after many struggles. For a young woman to frighten hawks away from her chickens, signifies she will obtain her most extravagant desires through diligent attention to her affairs.
It also denotes that enemies are near you, and they are ready to take advantage of your slightest mistakes. If you succeed in scaring it away before your fowls are injured, you will be lucky in your business.
To see a dead hawk, signifies that your enemies will be vanquished.
To dream of shooting at a hawk, you will have a contest with enemies, and will probably win.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Hawk · Heading 342; source line 2512 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of seeing a very large hawk, it shows that you will soon begin a new enterprise; if the hawk darts down and takes a chicken, a bird, or a fish, you will probably be successful; if little birds attack the hawk and drive it away, you will have difficulties in your undertaking and may possibly fail in it.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Hawk · Dream section, heading 118; source lines 3806–3808 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A happy omen--success in 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
Hawk · Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10261–10266 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
The dream of the commencement of a new enterprise; if the hawk dart downwards you will succeed, but if a little bird attack the hawk you will fail (Gypsy). Ancient symbol of the sun, of intelligence and good luck; also of enterprise; the bird of Horus.
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