Miller wrote: “To dream of ice, betokens much distress, and evil-minded persons will seek to injure you in your best work.” Compare 5 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
Ice · Heading 1015; source lines 11823–11856 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ice, betokens much distress, and evil-minded persons will seek to injure you in your best work.
To see ice floating in a stream of clear water, denotes that your happiness will be interrupted by ill-tempered and jealous friends.
To dream that you walk on ice, you risk much solid comfort and respect for evanescent joys.
For a young woman to walk on ice, is a warning that only a thin veil hides her from shame.
To see icicles on the eaves of houses, denotes misery and want of comfort. Ill health is foreboded.
To see icicles on the fence, denotes suffering bodily and mentally.
To see them on trees, despondent hopes will grow gloomier.
To see them on evergreens, a bright future will be overcast with the shadow of doubtful honors.
To dream that you make ice, you will make a failure of your life through egotism and selfishness.
Eating ice, foretells sickness. If you drink ice-water, you will bring ill health from dissipation.
Bathing in ice-water, anticipated pleasures will be interrupted with an unforeseen event.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ice · Heading 367; source line 2652 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Skating and Sliding.) To dream of walking on slippery ice in winter, is a sign that misfortune threatens you: if you slip down, it foreshadows bad luck: if you dream of gliding or skating easily over smooth ice, it shows that you will probably have a difficulty of some kind, but will overcome it and get through handsomely. For lovers to dream of going over ice is a bad omen.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Ice · Dream section, heading 251; source lines 1067–1070 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ice is a favorable omen. To the lover it shows your sweetheart is of an amiable temper and faithful. To dream you are sliding or skating on the ice, denotes that you will pursue some unprofitable concern and be much worried by your engagements.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ice · Dream section, heading 221; source lines 4385–4388 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes gratitude.
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
Ice · Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10420–10423 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Always a bad dream (Raphael). Probably a dream caused by unnatural chilling of the sleeper's body, and therefore not good.
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