Miller wrote: “To dream that your knees are too large, denotes sudden ill luck for you.” Compare 4 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
Knee · Heading 1126; source lines 12955–12969 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that your knees are too large, denotes sudden ill luck for you. If they are stiff and pain you, swift and fearful calamity awaits you.
For a woman to dream that she has well-formed and smooth knees, predicts she will have many admirers, but none to woo her in wedlock.
If they are soiled, sickness from dissipation is portended. If they are unshapely, unhappy changes in her fortune will displace ardent hopes.
To dream of knees is an unfortunate omen.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Knee · Heading 402; source line 2831 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of falling on the knees, denotes misfortune in business. To see a woman’s knees, good luck and marriage to the girl of your choice. For a woman to see a man’s knee, shows that she will have many male children.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of the knees. · Book 1, encoded section 36 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
THe knées being strong and sturdie, signifye journeyes, or other motions and operations of health. But being weak and diseased, the contrary. A Trée or branch comming out of the Knée, signifyes slownesse and hinderance: to a sick man, oftentimes death. The Knees signifye the Brethren and familiar Friends, and sometimes children.
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
Knee · Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10550–10552 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To fall upon the knees symbolizes need of help (Gypsy).
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