Miller wrote: “If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable.” Compare 4 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
Hunting · Heading 1004; source lines 11684–11694 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable.
If you dream that you hunt game and find it, you will overcome obstacles and gain your desires. See Gain.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Hunting · Heading 365; source line 2643 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of going a hunting brings an accusation of dishonesty: if you are returning from the chase, good fortune awaits you.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Hunting · Dream section, heading 250; source lines 1063–1067 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are hunting and that the game is killed, shows much trouble through the pretensions of false friends, but that you will discover them and overcome all their machinations.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Hunting · Dream section, heading 127; source lines 3826–3829 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Dreamer returning from a hunt) A fortunate dream: (dreamer going hunting) frustrated hopes and disappointment.
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