Miller wrote: “Whenever you take an oath in your dreams, prepare for dissension and altercations on waking.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Oath · Heading 1411; source lines 16115–16120 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Whenever you take an oath in your dreams, prepare for dissension and altercations on waking.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Oath · Heading 519; source line 3436 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of taking a solemn oath before a magistrate, or in a court of justice, foretells quarreling and litigation: even if you are a timid and quiet person, such a dream promises that some one will quarrel with you.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Oaths · Dream section, heading 290; source lines 4560–4562 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A man using blasphemous words signifies trouble.
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