Miller wrote: “To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.” Compare 2 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
Lute · Heading 1232; source lines 14370–14377 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.
Pleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music of a lute.
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
Lute · Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10757–10759 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of delightful company, happiness, success (Gypsy).
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