Miller wrote: “To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade and affairs of social nature.” Compare 5 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
Pearls · Heading 1512; source lines 17136–17150 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade and affairs of social nature.
If a young woman dreams that her lover sends her gifts of pearls, she will indeed be most fortunate, as there will be occasions of festivity and pleasure for her, besides a loving and faithful affianced devoid of the jealous inclinations so ruinous to the peace of lovers. If she loses or breaks her pearls, she will suffer indescribable sadness and sorrow through bereavement or misunderstandings. To find herself admiring them, she will covet and strive for love or possessions with a pureness of purpose.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pearls · Heading 561; source line 3666 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of these gems, denotes poverty and misery; if a girl dreams that a lover gives her a piece of jewelry set in pearls, it shows that he will never be well off; and if she imagines that he presents her with a string or necklace of pearls, she may safely calculate that he will turn out to be a wretchedly poor man.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pearls · Dream section, heading 315; source lines 4620–4623 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of receiving or wearing pearls signifies tears and distress.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Pearls · Dream section, heading 191; source lines 4010–4012 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Weeping and tears, hard times, worry, and treason.
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
Pearls · Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11326–11328 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of tears (Gypsy). The jewel is also symbolical of weeping, especially to brides.
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