Miller wrote: “To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship, and loss of money.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Hornet · Heading 989; source lines 11416–11425 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship, and loss of money.
For a young woman to dream that one stings her, or she is in a nest of them, foretells that many envious women will seek to disparage her before her admirers.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Hornet · Dream section, heading 248; source lines 1057–1059 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hornets, shows you will have to do with people who will assault and discredit you.
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
Hornet · Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10343–10344 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of vexations (Gypsy).
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