Miller wrote: “To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties will be taken with your possessions.” Compare 2 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
Knife Grinder · Heading 1128; source lines 12990–12996 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties will be taken with your possessions. For a woman, this omens unhappy unions and much drudgery.
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
Knife-Grinder · Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10556–10559 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To see one foretells robbery (Gypsy); this occupation was a common one amongst the Gypsies themselves.
The source heading “Knife-Grinder” is shown on the Knife Grinder page: same occupation; hyphen variant
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