Fontaine wrote: “To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen.” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Paper · Heading 543; source line 3561 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen; but if it appears rumpled, it will give you much pain. To dream of paper that is wet, signifies success in love matters.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Paper · Dream section, heading 392; source lines 1494–1495 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of paper is a good omen, but if it appears rumpled, it will give you much pain.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Paper · Dream section, heading 306; source lines 4599–4602 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of reading a newspaper means that happiness will be brief.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Paper · Dreams interpreted, passage 24; source lines 179–180 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream you see a piece of paper in flames, denotes the party will be happy in a marriage state in friends and affection.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Paper” because that is the subject of its first clause.
View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Paper · Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11258–11261 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of white paper, innocence; written on, chicanery; printed, good fortune; decorated, deception (Gypsy).
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