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Jaws

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Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing heavy, misshapen jaws, denotes disagreements, and ill feeling will be shown between…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Jaws · Heading 1083; source lines 12476–12488 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of seeing heavy, misshapen jaws, denotes disagreements, and ill feeling will be shown between friends.

If you dream that you are in the jaws of a wild beast, enemies will work injury to your affairs and happiness. This is a vexatious and perplexing dream.

If your own jaws ache with pain, you will be exposed to climatic changes, and malaria may cause you loss in health and finances.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription

Of the Jawes and Hippes. · Book 1, encoded section 19 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

THe Jawes represent Cellars, Shops, and other things accustomed to kéepe Merchandises, or Drugges. The Lippes represent those which kisse and embrace us and which are often about us as Wife, Children, Parents, and Allyes. So that if the one or the other, séeme to have any harme or mischance, it signifieth unto us that the affaires of our kinsfolkes are net in good plight.

The source heading “Jawes and Hippes” is shown on the Jaws page: artemidorus jaws section (hips secondary)

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