Noe wrote: “If one dreams that he sees or smells the palm, it signifies prosperity.” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Palm · Dream section, heading 406; source lines 1528–1531 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If one dreams that he sees or smells the palm, it signifies prosperity. If it be a woman that dreams so, she shall bear children. If it be a maid, she will be suddenly married.
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
Palm · Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11232–11235 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream foretelling success and prosperity, to a woman children, to a maid marriage (Artemidorus). The Christian emblem of victory.
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