Miller wrote: “To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love or business may be canceled…” Compare 3 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
Panther · Heading 1479; source lines 16780–16799 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love or business may be canceled unexpectedly, owing to adverse influences working against your honor. But killing, or over-powering it, you will experience joy and be successful in your undertakings. Your surroundings will take on fair prospects.
If one menaces you by its presence, you will have disappointments in business. Other people will likely recede from their promises to you.
If you hear the voice of a panther, and experience terror or fright, you will have unfavorable news, coming in the way of reducing profit or gain, and you may have social discord; no fright forebodes less evil.
A panther, like the cat, seen in a dream, portends evil to the dreamer, unless he kills it.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Panther · Heading 542; source line 3555 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you see one of these animals, and are terrified by it, shows that you will be disgusted at the ingratitude of a friend you have served: if, in your dream, you see a tame panther, and caress it, it foretells that you have some ungrateful person in your household, (perhaps a servant,) or else a false-hearted friend.
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
Panther · Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11251–11254 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream prognosticating the approach of evil, a lawsuit (Gypsy); the panther is the symbol of watchfulness and alertness.
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