Noe wrote: “Dreaming of oxen denotes a year of plenty and fruitfulness.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Oxen · Heading 536; source line 3521 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Cattle.)
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Oxen · Dream section, heading 375; source lines 1444–1447 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming of oxen denotes a year of plenty and fruitfulness. But if they appear poor and lean it threatens a year of scarcity and famine. To dream you feed oxen is a good sign, but to see oxen go to water is a bad sign.
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
Oxen · Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11202–11208 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
An ox in a dream signifies the yoke of obedience; a pair of fat oxen predicts a year of plenty, lean oxen threaten scarcity and famine. Oxen plowing a field presage gain and plenty (Artemidorus). See Pharaoh's dream of the kine. The ox symbolized patience, strength and sacrifice, in Christian art.
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