Miller wrote: “To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path, stumbling over rocks and other obstructions,…” Compare 4 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
Path · Heading 1506; source lines 17057–17070 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path, stumbling over rocks and other obstructions, denotes that you will have a rough encounter with adversity, and feverish excitement will weigh heavily upon you.
To dream that you are trying to find your path, foretells that you will fail to accomplish some work that you have striven to push to desired ends.
To walk through a pathway bordered with green grass and flowers, denotes your freedom from oppressing loves.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Paths · Heading 554; source line 3628 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you are walking in a broad, good pathway, denotes health and success; in love it shows you will meet with a sweetheart, who will make you happy, but if the path is crooked it foretells trouble to the dreamer.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Paths · Dream section, heading 415; source lines 1551–1558 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream in path both straight and fair, Your work doth happiness declare; But crooked ways denote much ill To those who have a headstrong will.
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
Path · Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11303–11306 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a straight path denotes success and virtue, a crooked and thorny path forecasts disappointment and treachery (Gypsy).
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