Miller wrote: “To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer from your acquaintances through…” Compare 3 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
Pepper · Heading 1525; source lines 17270–17288 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer from your acquaintances through your love of gossip.
To see red pepper growing, foretells for you a thrifty and an independent partner in the marriage state.
To see piles of red pepper pods, signifies that you will aggressively maintain your rights.
To grind black pepper, denotes that you will be victimized by the wiles of ingenious men or women. To see it in stands on the table, omens sharp reproaches or quarrels.
For a young woman to put it on her food, foretells that she will be deceived by her friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Peppers · Heading 566; source line 3695 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of picking pepper-pods, foretells to married people smart children, if they have any. A girl who dreams this, will have a smart man for a lover, but he will not pet her much either as a sweetheart or wife.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pepper · Dream section, heading 319; source lines 4630–4632 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of pepper denotes affliction.
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