Miller wrote: “To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment of which you will throw off…” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Lark · Heading 1156; source lines 13392–13414 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment of which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind.
To hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change of abode, and business will flourish.
To see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom will overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights.
A wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death.
To kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness.
If they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising countenance towards you.
To catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily.
To see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lark · Heading 412; source line 2888 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of the lark, shows speedy increase of fortune. To lovers, this is a very favorable omen, and is a sign that the course of true love runs smooth.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Lark · Dream section, heading 152; source lines 3905–3907 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Good luck: improvement in finances.
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
Lark · Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10622–10624 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A lucky dream forecasting health and prosperity (Raphael); the symbol of joy and of praise (Bayley).
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