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Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a pauper, implies unpleasant happenings for you.” Compare 2 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

Pauper · Heading 1508; source lines 17076–17085 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you are a pauper, implies unpleasant happenings for you.

To see paupers, denotes that there will be a call upon your generosity. See Beggars and kindred words.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Pauper · Heading 555; source line 3633 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you visit the poor-house and see the inmates, is a sign to a woman that she will bear many children, and to a man that he will raise a large family, such a dream to a young girl foretells that she will be apt to become a mother before she is a wife.

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