Fontaine wrote: “To dream that a river, or any stream, overflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of wealth.”
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
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Original source (English)
(See Flood.) To dream that a river, or any stream, overflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of wealth; that is, you will acquire riches in proportion to the quantity of water around, and the ground it covers: if you fancy that any one is drowned in the water, it foretells a misfortune in connection with your riches.
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