Miller wrote: “An obelisk looming up stately and cold in your dreams is the forerunner of melancholy tidings.” Compare 2 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
Obelisk · Heading 1415; source lines 16143–16150 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
An obelisk looming up stately and cold in your dreams is the forerunner of melancholy tidings.
For lovers to stand at the base of an obelisk, denotes fatal disagreements.
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
Obelisk · Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11117–11121 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of fame and wealth, of honors to be conferred (Gypsy). Rather curious symbolism in view of the fact that but recently has this meaning been attributed to the obelisks of Egypt, heretofore wrapped in mystery.
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