Miller wrote: “To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being led into serious complications by your love of…” 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
Pen · Heading 1518; source lines 17216–17223 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being led into serious complications by your love of adventure. If the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious breach of morality.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pens · Heading 565; source line 3686 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of writing with a steel pen, is a sign you will get yourself into a bad scrape, by tattling about your friends and neighbors. If the pen be gold, it foreshadows good news, and success in business and love affairs. To dream you are making a quill pen, is a sign you have many enemies, but that you will triumph over them, and be successful in all you undertake. But this dream does not amount to much, as it is only a “set-off” to dreaming of a pen-knife, which is a bad omen.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pen · Dream section, heading 318; source lines 4627–4630 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of holding or writing with a pen means good tidings.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Pen · Dream section, heading 196; source lines 4023–4025 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Avoid a friend whose example and advice are bad.
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
Pen · Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11335–11338 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Adversity, loss to a business man (Gypsy). Probably derived from the idea that knowledge interfered with the accomplishment of business.
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