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Hips

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Miller wrote: “To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you will be upbraided by your wife.”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Hips · Heading 970; source lines 11233–11246 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you will be upbraided by your wife.

For a woman to admire her hips, shows she will be disappointed in love matters.

To notice fat hips on animals, foretells ease and pleasure.

For a woman to dream that her hips are too narrow, omens sickness and disappointments. If too fat, she is in danger of losing her reputation.

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