Objects & events

Mending

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake to right a wrong at an inopportune…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Mending · Heading 1298; source lines 14955–14964 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake to right a wrong at an inopportune moment; but if the garment be clean, you will be successful in adding to your fortune.

For a young woman to dream of mending, foretells that she will be a systematic help to her husband.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Anonymous

Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription

Mending · Dream section, heading 172; source lines 3951–3953 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

(Clothes, etc.) Unhappiness, submission to others.

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