Miller wrote: “Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Pistol · Heading 1557; source lines 17645–17658 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.
If you own one, you will cultivate a low, designing character.
If you hear the report of one, you will be made aware of some scheme to ruin your interests.
To dream of shooting off your pistol, signifies that you will bear some innocent person envy, and you will go far to revenge the imagined wrong.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pistol · Heading 584; source line 3783 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of arming yourself with a pistol foretells that you will lose caste, and perhaps become poor: if a girl dreams that her lover carries a pistol, she may be sure that he is below her in social life, and therefore an unpropitious or unsuitable match.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pistol · Dream section, heading 330; source lines 4654–4657 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To carry a pistol or revolver denotes a change in your prospects for the better.
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
Pistol · Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11431–11434 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream prophesying attacks from secret enemies (Gypsy). Probably a suggestion from the subconsciousness, which recognizes much that is unperceived by the conscious.
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