Miller wrote: “If you dream of mowing hay, you will find much good in life, and if a farmer your crops will yield…” Compare 4 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
Hay · Heading 946; source lines 11009–11025 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of mowing hay, you will find much good in life, and if a farmer your crops will yield abundantly.
To see fields of newly cut hay, is a sign of unusual prosperity.
If you are hauling and putting hay into barns, your fortune is assured, and you will realize great profit from some enterprise.
To see loads of hay passing through the street, you will meet influential strangers who will add much to your pleasure.
To feed hay to stock, indicates that you will offer aid to some one who will return the favor with love and advancement to higher states.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Hay · Heading 343; source line 2518 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Raking and Harvest.) To dream of making hay, signifies success in all your undertakings. This is a good omen to young lovers. To dream you are selling hay is a bad omen, and portends losses in business and dangerous accidents.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Hay · Dream section, heading 232; source lines 991–993 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you cut it, signifies that you will have great influence in society. To dream of raking it together, denotes that you will stand at the head of assemblies.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Hay · Dream section, heading 119; source lines 3808–3810 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Good luck: (dreamer cutting hay) troubles and sorrow.
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