Miller wrote: “For a religiously inclined man to dream of nuns, foretells that material joys will interfere with his…” 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
Nuns · Heading 1402; source lines 16013–16030 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a religiously inclined man to dream of nuns, foretells that material joys will interfere with his spirituality. He should be wise in the control of self.
For a woman to dream of nuns, foretells her widowhood, or her separation from her lover. If she dreams that she is a nun, it portends her discontentment with present environments.
To see a dead nun, signifies despair over the unfaithfulness of loved ones, and impoverished fortune.
For one to dream that she discards the robes of her order, foretells that longing for worldly pleasures will unfit her for her chosen duties.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Nun · Heading 514; source line 3409 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a young girl to dream of seeing a sober-looking nun, is a sign of celibacy; if she imagines she speaks to the nun she may safely calculate on being an old maid; if a young man dreams this, it foretells that he will suspect his sweetheart of being untrue to him, and probably discard her altogether.
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
Nun · Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11090–11091 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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