Miller wrote: “To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and…” Compare 4 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
Mud · Heading 1350; source lines 15487–15500 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances in family circles.
To see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend or employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops and unsatisfactory gains from stock.
To see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed. To scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Mud · Heading 489; source line 3285 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of getting covered with mud by having it splashed over you, is a sign that you will be belied and talked about.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Mud · Dream section, heading 275; source lines 4523–4525 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To find yourself in mud means the coming of wealth.
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
Mud · Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10970–10972 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being covered with it denotes slander (Gypsy).
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