Miller wrote: “To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.” Compare 5 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
Lizard · Heading 1210; source lines 14115–14128 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.
If you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune; but if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses in love and business.
For a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt, or scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow. Her husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left a widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lizard · Heading 439; source line 3020 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of lizards, is a sign you have secret enemies who will injure you if they can. If a girl dreams this, it shows that some one will question her virtue.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Lizard · Dream section, heading 301; source lines 1213–1214 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that one sees a lizard, signifies ill-luck and misfortune by secret enemies.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Lizard · Dream section, heading 258; source lines 4481–4483 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing a lizard indicates coming trouble.
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
Lizard · Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10707–10710 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Misfortune through secret enemies is denoted by this dream (Artemidorus), The lizard is the mediaeval symbol of misfortune and ill-luck.
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