Miller wrote: “To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be displeased beyond endurance at the discourteous…” Compare 2 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
Hissing · Heading 971; source lines 11246–11253 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be displeased beyond endurance at the discourteous treatment shown you while among newly made acquaintances. If they hiss you, you will be threatened with the loss of a friend.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Hissing · Heading 351; source line 2563 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hearing hissing noises, such as steam makes, or of geese hissing, is a sign of shame. If a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will do something she is ashamed of: to a man it is a sign he will do an undignified act, or one that will injure his prospects.
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