Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing new petticoats, denotes that pride in your belongings will make you an object of…” 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
Petticoat · Heading 1530; source lines 17338–17354 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing new petticoats, denotes that pride in your belongings will make you an object of raillery among your acquaintances.
To see them soiled or torn, portends that your reputation will be in great danger.
If a young woman dream that she wears silken, or clean, petticoats, it denotes that she will have a doting, but manly husband. If she suddenly perceives that she has left off her petticoat in dressing, it portends much ill luck and disappointment. To see her petticoat falling from its place while she is at some gathering, or while walking, she will have trouble in retaining her lover, and other disappointments may follow.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Petticoat · Dream section, heading 199; source lines 4030–4033 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A bad dream portending troubles caused by frivolity, to a man: and to a woman vexations through vanity and pride.
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
Petticoat · Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11360–11361 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of trouble and sorrow (Raphael).
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