Miller wrote: “To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true happiness owing to selfishness, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Miser · Heading 1322; source lines 15186–15201 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true happiness owing to selfishness, and love will disappoint you sorely.
For a woman to dream that she is befriended by a miser, foretells she will gain love and wealth by her intelligence and tactful conduct.
To dream that you are miserly, denotes that you will be obnoxious to others by your conceited bearing
To dream that any of your friends are misers, foretells that you will be distressed by the importunities of others.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Miser · Heading 476; source line 3200 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a miser is a sign of waste, loss or destruction: if you see him counting and hoarding money, it foretells you will either lose or be robbed of some: to see him patching his clothes or his house or barn denotes a calamity, such as a robbery or a fire.
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
Miser · Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10893–10895 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Like all dreams pertaining to money or hoards, this is unfavorable (Gypsy).
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