Miller wrote: “If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations, which will almost wreck you financially and…” 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
Hell · Heading 956; source lines 11128–11139 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations, which will almost wreck you financially and morally.
To see your friends in hell, denotes distress and burdensome cares. You will hear of the misfortune of some friend.
To dream of crying in hell, denotes the powerlessness of friends to extricate you from the snares of enemies.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Hell · Dream section, heading 209; source lines 4355–4357 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of the infernal regions is a warning to reform.
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
Hell · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10306–10307 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
dream denoting mental agony or bodily pain (Gypsy).
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