Miller wrote: “To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an…” Compare 5 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
Lettuce · Heading 1188; source lines 13838–13855 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.
If you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion, or perhaps it may be petty jealousy.
For a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause of her own early sickness or death.
To gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness, and that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated distress and pain.
To buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lettuce · Heading 426; source line 2957 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating lettuce, is a sign of health and happiness, provided that it looks green and nice, and tastes good; wilted or wormy lettuce shadows forth vexation and trouble.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Lettuce · Dream section, heading 289; source lines 1177–1179 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that one eats salads made of lettuce, and other herbs that may be eaten raw, signifies trouble and difficulty in the management of affairs.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Lettuce · Dream section, heading 254; source lines 4473–4475 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes poverty.
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
Lettuce · Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10652–10653 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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