Miller wrote: “A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller · Lice
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Lice · Heading 1191; source lines 13876–13889 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress. It often implies offensive ailments.
Lice on stock, foretells famine and loss.
To have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself unpleasantly with your acquaintances.
To dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you will cultivate morbidity.
Gustavus Hindman Miller · Louse
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Louse · Heading 1225; source lines 14295–14303 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a louse, foretells that you will have uneasy feelings regarding your health, and an enemy will give you exasperating vexation. See Lice.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lice · Heading 429; source line 2969 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of lice denotes sickness and poverty.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Lice · Dream section, heading 309; source lines 1238–1242 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are lousy and that you are killing a great number of them, is a very good omen. It denotes great riches to the dreamer. They also portend deliverance from enemies, and that you will overcome much slander and malice.
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