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Picnic

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Miller wrote: “To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Picnic · Heading 1541; source lines 17460–17472 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.

Dreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young.

Storms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary displacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business. See Kindred Words.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Picnic · Heading 573; source line 3732 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

For a young man to dream of going with a pic-nic party into the woods, is a sign that some silly girl will fall in love with him: if a young girl dreams this, some vain fellow will probably pay her attentions and compliments merely to gratify his own vanity.

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