Miller wrote: “To dream that you see your own neck, foretells that vexatious family relations will interfere with your…” 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
Neck · Heading 1374; source lines 15740–15751 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you see your own neck, foretells that vexatious family relations will interfere with your business.
To admire the neck of another, signifies your worldly mindedness will cause broken domestic ties.
For a woman to dream that her neck is thick, foretells that she will become querulous and something of a shrew if she fails to control her temper.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Neck · Heading 501; source line 3344 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a woman or girl dreams that her neck is large and thick, it is a sure sign she will bear many children: if it seems smaller than usual, it denotes to a married woman a miscarriage, and to a girl the loss of her beau: if a woman dreams that her neck is fair and beautiful, it foretells that some gentleman will make love to her.
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
Neck · Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 11012–11015 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of power, honor, riches. Imperfections or ailments of the neck, however, prognosticate sickness (Artemidorus).
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