Miller wrote: “To dream of mice, foretells domestic troubles and the insincerity of friends.” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller · Mice
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Mice · Heading 1304; source lines 14998–15012 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of mice, foretells domestic troubles and the insincerity of friends. Business affairs will assume a discouraging tone.
To kill mice, denotes that you will conquer your enemies.
To let them escape you, is significant of doubtful struggles.
For a young woman to dream of mice, warns her of secret enemies, and that deception is being practised upon her. If she should see a mouse in her clothing, it is a sign of scandal in which she will figure.
Gustavus Hindman Miller · Mouse
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Mouse · Heading 1348; source lines 15470–15475 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a woman to dream of a mouse, denotes that she will have an enemy who will annoy her by artfulness and treachery.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Mouse · Heading 486; source line 3266 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Trap.) To dream of killing a mouse is a sign you will detect a thief in stealing from you: if, in your dream, you see a mouse, or a number of mice, it foretells that you will soon have thieves in the house. For a girl to dream that she pets a mouse, shows that she will have a light-fingered or dishonest lover.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Mice · Dream section, heading 325; source lines 1290–1293 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of mice, denotes prosperity, success in love, and a happy marriage. For a married woman to dream of mice, it is a token that she will be with child shortly and that the fruit of her womb will become very rich and powerful.
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
Mice · Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10871–10873 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of envious slanderers, also of poverty (Gypsy).
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