Miller wrote: “To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your ability to accomplish…” 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
Nose · Heading 1397; source lines 15975–15988 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your ability to accomplish whatever enterprise you may choose to undertake.
If your nose looks smaller than natural, there will be failure in your affairs. Hair growing on your nose, indicates extraordinary undertakings, and that they will be carried through by sheer force of character, or will.
A bleeding nose, is prophetic of disaster, whatever the calling of the dreamer may be.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Nose · Heading 512; source line 3401 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of big-nosed people is generally a good omen, as such persons are usually smart and energetic. To dream of snub noses is a sign of a quarrel, or that you will be abused by somebody.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of the Nose. · Book 1, encoded section 17 · Text transcription · marked gaps
Original source (English)
FOr to have a faire and great Nose, is good to all, for it signifies subtle [illegible passage] y of sense, providence in affaires, and acquaintance with great personages. But to have no Nose signifies the contrary. And to a sick man death, for dead mens heads have no nose. To have two noses is discord with his domesticall kindred.
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View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Nose · Dream section, heading 357; source lines 1384–1386 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one has a fair and great nose is a good to all, for it denotes prosperity in affairs, and acquaintance with rich persons.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Nose · Dream section, heading 286; source lines 4550–4553 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming of your own or someone’s nose denotes a new acquaintance.
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
Nose · Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11067–11074 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a great, fair nose is fortunate, signifying subtlety, prominent acquaintances, great personages. Dreaming of a nose longer than ordinary promises wealth and power; two noses augur discord and quarrels; stopped up nose, deceit in the domestic circle (Artemidorus). The Egyptian priests believed that a wart on the nose indicated knowledge in proportion to the size of the wart (Churchward).
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