Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing ivy growing on trees or houses, predicts excellent health and increase of fortune.” Compare 5 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
Ivy · Heading 1072; source lines 12376–12393 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing ivy growing on trees or houses, predicts excellent health and increase of fortune. Innumerable joys will succeed this dream. To a young woman, it augurs many prized distinctions. If she sees ivy clinging to the wall in the moonlight, she will have clandestine meetings with young men.
Withered ivy, denotes broken engagements and sadness.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ivy · Heading 382; source line 2718 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing this vine running over and covering any house, is a sign of poverty, particularly if the ivy grows thick and abundant: if you dream that it covers your own house, the sign is still more sure: for a farmer to dream that he sees ivy covering a tree, denotes bad crops. A girl who dreams of being in a bower covered with ivy, will probably marry a poor and shiftless man.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ivy · Dream section, heading 229; source lines 4406–4409 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes a happy termination of courtship and a fortunate marriage.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Ivy · Dream section, heading 134; source lines 3850–3855 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
True friends will present themselves.
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
Ivy · Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10473–10478 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of strong trust and friendship (Gypsy). A symbol of the Trinity and of the triple creative power, also of loyalty and friendship.
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