Craig wrote: “A dream of illness and loss (Artemidorus). This dream usually due to overindulgence in alcoholic liquors.”
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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
Insects · Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10455–10457 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of illness and loss (Artemidorus). This dream usually due to overindulgence in alcoholic liquors.
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