Miller wrote: “To dream of melons, denotes ill health and unfortunate ventures in business.” 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
Melon · Heading 1293; source lines 14919–14928 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of melons, denotes ill health and unfortunate ventures in business.
To eat them, signifies that hasty action will cause you anxiety.
To see them growing on green vines, denotes that present troubles will result in good fortune for you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Melons · Heading 461; source line 3135 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ripe, fine looking melons, is an excellent omen, as it foretells good health, good luck, and much happiness. A watermelon full of black seeds denotes so much money to be paid to you. If a married woman dreams this, it promises her many children.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Melons · Dream section, heading 339; source lines 1336–1338 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of melons, to sick persons is a prognostic of recovery, by reason of their humidity or juicy substance.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Melon · Dream section, heading 267; source lines 4502–4504 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Signifies hope and success.
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
Melons · Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10866–10870 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To a sick person this is a dream of recovery by reason of the juiciness which dispels fever (Gypsy); a dream originating in physical stimuli indicative of coolness and moisture after fever.
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