Miller wrote: “To dream of anointing with oil, foretells events in which you will be the particular moving power.” Compare 5 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
Oil · Heading 1429; source lines 16260–16273 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of anointing with oil, foretells events in which you will be the particular moving power.
Quantities of oil, prognosticates excesses in pleasurable enterprises.
For a man to dream that he deals in oil, denotes unsuccessful love making, as he will expect unusual concessions.
For a woman to dream that she is anointed with oil, shows that she will be open to indiscreet advances.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Oil · Heading 524; source line 3458 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream it is spilled on the floor, signifies damage; to spill it on yourself, profit.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Oil · Dream section, heading 371; source lines 1436–1437 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming that you are anointed with oil, is good for women, but for men, denotes shame.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Oil · Dream section, heading 292; source lines 4564–4566 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of oil is a sign of good harvest and prosperity.
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
Oil · Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11143–11145 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To be anointed is good for good women, but ill for men (Artemidorus).
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