Miller wrote: “To see a kangaroo in your dreams, you will outwit a wily enemy who seeks to place you in an unfavorable…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Kangaroo · Heading 1111; source lines 12765–12776 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a kangaroo in your dreams, you will outwit a wily enemy who seeks to place you in an unfavorable position before the public and the person you are striving to win.
If a kangaroo attacks you, your reputation will be in jeopardy.
If you kill one, you will succeed in spite of enemies and obstacles.
To see a kangaroo's hide, denotes that you are in a fair way to success.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Kangaroo · Dream section, heading 142; source lines 3876–3878 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A secret and powerful enemy or rival.
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
Kangaroo · Printed p. 226–227; NLM OCR lines 10509–10518 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Prolonged worries, to kill one is a lucky dream (Gypsy). Wild animals generally symbolize misfortune with gypsy interpreters; Freud and Jung, however, attach to them an erotic significance.
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