Craig wrote: “A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy).”
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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
May- Pole · Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10850–10853 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy); an erotic symbol (Freud). The maypole dance and festival had its remote origin in sex- worship (Frazier).
Display text corrects OCR misreads: erotio → erotic. The original transcription is retained in the source record.
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