Miller wrote: “To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.” Compare 6 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
Pears · Heading 1513; source lines 17150–17164 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.
To admire the golden fruit upon graceful trees, denotes that fortune will wear a more promising aspect than formerly.
To dream of gathering them, denotes pleasant surprises will follow quickly upon disappointment.
To preserve them, denotes that you will take reverses philosophically.
Baking them, denotes insipid love and friendships.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pears · Heading 562; source line 3672 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of ripe, mellow pears, portends elevation in life, riches, honors, and constancy in love. If a woman with child dream of them, she will have a daughter. To dream of unripe, choke-pears, is a sign of misfortunes, and inconstancy in love.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Pears · Dream section, heading 394; source lines 1496–1498 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming of pears well baked, denotes great success and expedition in business.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pears · Dream section, heading 316; source lines 4623–4625 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Eating pears means long life and happiness.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Pears · Dream section, heading 192; source lines 4012–4015 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Gathering them) Pleasant companionship and enjoyment: (eating them) sickness and possibly death.
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
Pears · Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11329–11331 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting sickness (Raphael). It was held as an emblem of the human heart (Bayley).
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