Miller wrote: “To dream of iron, is a harsh omen of distress.” Compare 6 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
Iron · Heading 1067; source lines 12306–12332 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of iron, is a harsh omen of distress.
To feel an iron weight bearing you down, signifies mental perplexities and material losses.
To strike with iron, denotes selfishness and cruelty to those dependent upon you.
To dream that you manufacture iron, denotes that you will use unjust means to accumulate wealth.
To sell iron, you will have doubtful success, and your friends will not be of noble character.
To see old, rusty iron, signifies poverty and disappointment.
To dream that the price of iron goes down, you will realize that fortune is a very unsafe factor in your life.
If iron advances, you will see a gleam of hope in a dark prospectus.
To see red-hot iron in your dreams, denotes failure for you by misapplied energy.
Felix Fontaine · Iron
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Iron · Heading 378; source line 2703 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Metals.)
Felix Fontaine · Iron
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Iron · Heading 466; source line 3157 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For one to dream that he is hurt with iron, signifies that he shall receive some damage.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Iron · Dream section, heading 260; source lines 1092–1095 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For one to dream that he is hurt with iron, signifies that he shall receive some damage. To dream that one trades with a stranger in iron, signifies losses and misfortune.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Iron · Dream section, heading 226; source lines 4398–4401 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a flatiron denotes that you will go thru a cruel experience.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Iron · Dream section, heading 130; source lines 3839–3842 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A profitable bargain: (red-hot) sorrows: (burnt with same) dreamer will receive some personal injury.
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
Iron · Printed p. 225–226; NLM OCR lines 10458–10466 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being hurt with iron signifies damage; to trade in iron with strangers, losses and misfortune (Artemidorus). See Kipling, "Rewards and Fairies."
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