Miller wrote: “To use a needle in your dream, is a warning of approaching affliction, in which you will suffer keenly the…” Compare 6 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
Needle · Heading 1378; source lines 15774–15790 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To use a needle in your dream, is a warning of approaching affliction, in which you will suffer keenly the loss of sympathy, which is rightfully yours.
To dream of threading a needle, denotes that you will be burdened with the care of others than your own household.
To look for a needle, foretells useless worries.
To find a needle, foretells that you will have friends who will appreciate you.
To break one, signifies loneliness and poverty.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Needles · Heading 503; source line 3355 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of needles, signifies that you will be grievously injured by the deceit of supposed friends. For a girl to dream that she pricks herself with a needle, is a sign that her beau will attempt improper liberties.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Needle · Dream section, heading 363; source lines 1403–1409 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a female to dream she is busy with the needle, indicates that she is about to take a journey either of pleasure or necessity. For one of the male sex to dream he is using the needle (except he is a tailor), forebodes a series of distressing and unpleasant matters are about to harass and perplex him.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Needles · Dream section, heading 283; source lines 4543–4545 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Are a sign of disappointment in love.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Needle · Dream section, heading 181; source lines 3976–3979 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Love or family quarrels: (unable to thread needle) baseless suspicions causing trouble.
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
Needles · Printed p. 236–237; NLM OCR lines 11027–11035 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of disputes and quarrels (Gypsy). "Needles and pins! Needles and pins! When a man marries" — etc.
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