Miller wrote: “If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause…” 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
Mule · Heading 1354; source lines 15525–15541 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety, but if you reach your destination without interruption, you will be recompensed with substantial results.
For a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy foreigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes. If she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers, but no offers of marriage.
To be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage.
To see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Mule · Heading 492; source line 3294 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of riding a mule, or driving one, is a sign of celibacy: gentlemen or ladies who dream this may safely calculate that they will live single for the rest of their lives, unless some more vivid dream with a favorable omen should counterbalance the influence of this one. If married people dream of mules, it foretells that they will be childless.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Mule · Dream section, heading 276; source lines 4525–4527 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing or riding a mule is a sure sign of difficulty.
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