Miller wrote: “To dream that you hear the sound of a horn, foretells hasty news of a joyful character.” 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
Horn · Heading 988; source lines 11404–11416 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you hear the sound of a horn, foretells hasty news of a joyful character.
To see a broken horn, denotes death or accident.
To see children playing with horns, denotes congeniality in the home.
For a woman to dream of blowing a horn, foretells that she is more anxious for marriage than her lover.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Horns · Heading 358; source line 2598 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see horns on the head of another person, danger to the dreamer on your own wealth and importance. To dream you are gored by a horned animal denotes unhappiness. To lovers it usually predicts that they will have difficulty in connection with their desires; if they think of marrying, some obstacle will be placed in the way of their union, though perhaps not prevent it in the end.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Horns · Dream section, heading 240; source lines 1017–1020 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one hath horns on his head, signifies dominion, grandeur and royalty. To dream you see a man with horns on his head, signifies he is in danger both of the loss of his person and estate.
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
Horns · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10345–10349 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Dream of wearing horns denotes dominion and grandeur (Artemidorus). Horns have ever been worn by priests and rulers of barbarous tribes as symbols of state and power. Jung and Freud attach to them a phallic significance.
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