Miller wrote: “To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing…” Compare 4 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
Nightingale · Heading 1392; source lines 15940–15948 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings. This is a most favorable dream to lovers, and parents.
To see nightingales silent, foretells slight misunderstandings among friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Nightingale · Heading 509; source line 3388 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this bird signifies light amours; to hear it sing, happiness.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Nightingale · Dream section, heading 352; source lines 1373–1374 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of the nightingale signifieth good work, and principally wedding.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Nightingale · Dream section, heading 187; source lines 3992–3997 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Hearing nightingales sing) Joyfulness, success in business, good crops, a happy marriage to a good and faithful mate: (for a married woman to dream) she will have children who will become great singers.
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