Miller wrote: “To dream that oats hold the vision, portends a variety of good things.” 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
Oats · Heading 1413; source lines 16128–16135 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that oats hold the vision, portends a variety of good things. The farmer will especially advance in fortune and domestic harmony.
To see decayed oats, foretells that sorrow will displace bright hopes.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Oats · Heading 520; source line 3441 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this grain foretells a journey by land: if an engaged young girl dreams of oats, it denotes that her wedding tour is not far off.
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
Oats · Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11114–11116 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting success, to each after his own desire (Gypsy). Agricultural symbols are invariably auspicious.
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