Miller wrote: “To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate in your friendships.” 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
Inquest · Heading 1051; source lines 12168–12173 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate in your friendships.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Inquest · Heading 375; source line 2696 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are present at a coroner’s inquest, is a bad sign; you will soon squander your fortune.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Inquest · Dream section, heading 256; source lines 1081–1085 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being at an inquest, denotes prosperity; to dream that you are the subject on which the inquest is held, prognosticates that you will come into prosperity by the death of some rich person; to dream an inquest is held on the body of a friend is also good to the dreamer.
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