Miller wrote: “To see kettles in your dream, denotes great and laborious work before you.” 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
Kettle · Heading 1114; source lines 12790–12804 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see kettles in your dream, denotes great and laborious work before you.
To see a kettle of boiling water, your struggles will soon end and a change will come to you.
To see a broken kettle, denotes failure after a mighty effort to work out a path to success.
For a young woman to dream of handling dark kettles, foretells disappointment in love and marriage; but a light-colored kettle brings to her absolute freedom from care, and her husband will be handsome and worthy.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Kettle · Dream section, heading 144; source lines 3880–3882 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Black) An ill omen, death: (copper) lucky dream.
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
Kettle · Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10519–10521 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A bright kettle denotes success in every day life (Raphael). Obvious symbolism of the Gypsy life.
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