Miller wrote: “To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer, and to the seafaring it…” 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
Mustard · Heading 1364; source lines 15622–15637 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer, and to the seafaring it prognosticates wealth.
To eat mustard seed and feel the burning in your mouth, denotes that you will repent bitterly some hasty action, which has caused you to suffer.
To dream of eating green mustard cooked, indicates the lavish waste of fortune, and mental strain.
For a young woman to eat newly grown mustard, foretells that she will sacrifice wealth for personal desires.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Mustard · Heading 495; source line 3312 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of mustard or mustard seed, is a bad omen, and foretells sickness and perhaps death. To dream you eat mustard, is a sign your sweetheart or lover is false to you. To married persons this dream indicates domestic quarrels.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Mustard · Dream section, heading 279; source lines 4532–4534 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Eating mustard denotes pain and trouble.
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