Miller wrote: “If in your dreams you walk among nettles without being stung, you will be prosperous.” 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
Nettles · Heading 1384; source lines 15871–15886 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If in your dreams you walk among nettles without being stung, you will be prosperous.
To be stung by them, you will be discontented with yourself and make others unhappy.
For a young woman to dream of passing through nettles, foretells that she will be offered marriage by different men, and her decision will fill her with anxious foreboding.
To dream of nettles, is portentous of stringent circumstances and disobedience from children or servants.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Nettles · Dream section, heading 184; source lines 3983–3988 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Stung by them) Sign that the dreamer will make a bold effort to reach a desired end or gain a desired object; for young people to dream thus is a sign that they are in love and wishful to enter the unknown and, possibly, unhappy state of matrimony.
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
Nettles · Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11043–11045 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of stinging yourself denotes striving to attain desire; in youth it augurs love that will risk all.
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