Miller wrote: “To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.” Compare 3 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
Lead · Heading 1167; source lines 13529–13546 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.
A lead mine, indicates that your friends will look with suspicion on your money making. Your sweetheart will surprise you with her deceit and ill temper.
To dream of lead ore, foretells distress and accidents. Business will assume a gloomy cast.
To hunt for lead, denotes discontentment, and a constant changing of employment.
To melt lead, foretells that by impatience you will bring failure upon yourself and others.
Felix Fontaine · Lead
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lead · Heading 418; source line 2917 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Metals.)
Felix Fontaine · Lead
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lead · Heading 467; source line 3160 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of lead denotes sickness, but to dream of leaden bullets good news. If you dream you are wounded by a leaden bullet it is a sign you will be successful in love.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Lead · Dream section, heading 157; source lines 3916–3918 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
An inheritance or legacy from beloved friend.
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