Miller wrote: “To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow and failure in affairs.” Compare 6 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
Killing · Heading 1119; source lines 12849–12857 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow and failure in affairs.
If you kill one in defense, or kill a ferocious beast, it denotes victory and a rise in position.
The source heading “Killing” is shown on the Kill page: same topic
View source editionFelix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Kill · Heading 399; source line 2806 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of wantonly killing any animal, or insect, it predicts bad luck and poverty; but if the killing be done by accident, it shows that, though you may have a misfortune in consequence, it will not materially affect your interest. For butchers or farmers to dream of killing fat and healthy animals for food, is a sign of thrift and abundance; but if they dream of killing a hog that does not squeal, it shadows forth a death in the family.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Kill · Dream section, heading 278; source lines 1142–1144 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you kill a man, signifies assuredness of business. To dream you kill your father, is a bad sign. To dream you are killed, denotes loss to him whom you dreamed has killed you.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Kill · Dream section, heading 236; source lines 4427–4429 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To kill a person denotes a coming quarrel.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Kill · Dream section, heading 146; source lines 3886–3889 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Dreamer killing a man) Assured happiness: (dreamer being killed) loss to the dream-adversary.
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
Kill · Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10532–10533 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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