Fontaine wrote: “For a girl to dream that she forgot to take off her nightcap, but received company in it, is a sign she will be kissed by a strange…”
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Nightcap · Heading 508; source line 3382 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a girl to dream that she forgot to take off her nightcap, but received company in it, is a sign she will be kissed by a strange gentleman, or that some stranger will be smitten by her charms: if a married woman dreams this, it foretells that her husband will be jealous of her, and perhaps not without cause.
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