Miller wrote: “To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.” 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
Linen · Heading 1204; source lines 14018–14029 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.
If a person appears to you dressed in linen garments, you will shortly be the recipient of joyful tidings in the nature of an inheritance.
If you are apparelled in clean, fine linen, your fortune and fullest enjoyment in life is assured. If it be soiled, sorrow and ill luck will be met with occasionally, mingled with the good in your life.
Felix Fontaine · Linen
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Linen · Heading 435; source line 2997 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are arrayed in clean linen denotes that you will shortly receive some glad tidings; and that your sweetheart is faithful; if it is dirty, then it denotes poverty and disappointment in love. White linen, if dressed in it, presages death; colored linen, removal; shifts, a gay sweetheart; gowns, a gift.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Linen · Dream section, heading 306; source lines 1227–1230 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are dressed in clean linen, denotes that you will shortly receive some glad tidings. That your sweetheart is faithful, and will marry. If it is dirty, then it denotes poverty, and disappointment in love.
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
Linen · Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10692–10695 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being dressed in clean linen denotes glad tidings; soiled linen, poverty, imprisonment, disappointment, etc. (Artemidorus).
Felix Fontaine · Shift
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Shift · Heading 717; source line 4481 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Linen and Smock.)
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