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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
Olives · Heading 1433; source lines 16296–16307 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Gathering olives with a merry band of friends, foretells favorable results in business, and delightful surprises.
If you take them from bottles, it foretells conviviality
To break a bottle of olives, indicates disappointments on the eve of pleasure.
To eat them, signifies contentment and faithful friends.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Olives · Dream section, heading 364; source lines 1409–1414 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see olives, denotes happiness, and that you will be successful in all your present undertakings. To the lover, they foretell a speedy marriage with the object of your affections. If you are gathering them off the trees, they announce much trouble and vexation through friends and children; to the lover, they show your sweetheart is unfaithful.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Olives · Dream section, heading 293; source lines 4566–4568 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Indicate honors and dignity.
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
Olive · Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11154–11157 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of gathering them, peace, delight, happiness to all conditions; eating olives, a rise in circumstance (Gypsy). The emblem of peace and plenty.
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