Miller wrote: “To dream of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble in your business.” 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
Heart · Heading 950; source lines 11068–11081 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble in your business. Some mistake of your own will bring loss if not corrected.
Seeing your heart, foretells sickness and failure of energy.
To see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit the respect of all.
To eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause you to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Heart · Heading 346; source line 2534 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a heart is a bad omen. If you lose your heart it signifies sickness and death. To the married it denotes infidelity of their marital vows. To dream you see a human heart shows you are sincerely beloved; but to dream you have a pain or palpitation in your heart shows you are doomed to suffer through treachery.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Heart · Dream section, heading 207; source lines 4349–4352 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of heart trouble indicates danger. The picture of a heart means true love.
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
Heart · Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10279–10284 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of the heart as sick or suffering augurs illness dangerous in proportion to the suffering; an injury to the heart portends danger; to dream of having no heart shows that death is near at hand (Gypsy). Obviously attributable to physical conditions.
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