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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
Ointment · Heading 1431; source lines 16279–16288 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ointment, denotes that you will form friendships which will prove beneficial and pleasing to you.
For a young woman to dream that she makes ointment, denotes that she will be able to command her own affairs whether they be of a private or public character.
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
Ointment · Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11146–11147 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of illness (Gypsy).
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