Miller wrote: “To see imps in your dream, signifies trouble from what seems a passing pleasure.” Compare 3 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
Imps · Heading 1027; source lines 11974–11982 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see imps in your dream, signifies trouble from what seems a passing pleasure.
To dream that you are an imp, denotes that folly and vice will bring you to poverty.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Imp · Dream section, heading 222; source lines 4388–4390 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Is an occasion on which to exercise caution.
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
Imps · Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10437–10439 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
An ill dream for those advanced in years, to others disappointment (Gypsy). The imp is a symbol of malice.
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