Miller wrote: “Seeing quantities of onions in your dreams, represents the amount of spite and envy that you will meet, by…” Compare 5 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
Onions · Heading 1437; source lines 16329–16344 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing quantities of onions in your dreams, represents the amount of spite and envy that you will meet, by being successful.
If you eat them, you will overcome all opposition.
If you see them growing, there will be just enough of rivalry in your affairs, to make things interesting.
Cooked onions, denote placidity and small gains in business.
To dream that you are cutting onions and feel the escaping juice in your eyes, denotes that you will be defeated by your rivals.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Onions · Heading 527; source line 3470 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this vegetable, denotes both good and bad luck: if you are eating them, you will soon receive some money; your sweetheart will be faithful, but cross, and you will be engaged in some dispute; if you are throwing onions away, it is the forerunner of mischief; in love, quarrels; in trade, opposition.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Onions · Dream section, heading 365; source lines 1414–1421 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating onions means Much strife in thy domestic scenes; Secrets found out or else betrayed, And many falsehoods made and said.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Onions · Dream section, heading 294; source lines 4568–4570 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating them means aggravation and disgrace.
Katherine Taylor Craig · Onions
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Onions · Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11161–11166 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Luck both good and ill; to eat onions augurs receiving money, discovery of lost or stolen articles; a faithful but hasty sweetheart. Also attacks from thieves and failure of crops. To gather onions, joyful news, recovery from illness and a speedy removal (Artemidorus).
Katherine Taylor Craig · Leeks
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Leeks · Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10640–10641 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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