Miller wrote: “If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose all sense of propriety and morality in…” 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
Oysters · Heading 1459; source lines 16584–16595 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose all sense of propriety and morality in your pursuit of low pleasures, and the indulgence of an insatiate thirst for gaining.
To deal in oysters, denotes that you will not be over-modest in your mode of winning a sweetheart, or a fortune.
To see them, denotes easy circumstances, and many children are promised you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Oysters · Heading 537; source line 3523 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If, in your dream, you imagine you are eating oysters, it denotes that you will have difficulties relative to money matters: but to rake them out of the water is a sign of money-getting: to dream of opening nice fat oysters for other people to eat is also a favorable omen, as it shows that you will have plenty of cash.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Oysters · Dream section, heading 366; source lines 1421–1422 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are eating oysters, is a very favorable omen.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Oyster · Dream section, heading 301; source lines 4585–4588 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of opening an oyster denotes honor; eating one foretells a feast.
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
Oysters · Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11209–11212 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
"To dream of opening and eating oysters shows great hunger, or a living earned through pains and difficulty." Artemidorus.
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