Craig wrote: “This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite and bring trouble (Gypsy).”
The historical account
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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
Jackal · Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10479–10483 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite and bring trouble (Gypsy). An Egyptian symbol of judgment, and of watchfulness over sacred things, it was evidently held in horror by the faiths that succeeded those of Egypt.
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