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Opium

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Opium · Heading 1439; source lines 16349–16354 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Opium · Heading 529; source line 3481 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of this drug foretells sickness and poverty: if you imagine that you see some one under the influence of opium, and in danger of dying, it foretells a misfortune either to yourself or some near relative.

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