Miller wrote: “If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks in business ventures and will…” Compare 4 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
Pit · Heading 1558; source lines 17658–17670 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks in business ventures and will draw uneasiness about your wooing.
To fall into a pit denotes calamity and deep sorrow. To wake as you begin to feel yourself falling into the pit, brings you out of distress in fairly good shape.
To dream that you are descending into one, signifies that you will knowingly risk health and fortune for greater success.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Pit · Dream section, heading 402; source lines 1506–1514 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of falling into a pit, shows that in some way heavy misfortune is about to attend you; that your sweetheart is false, and prefers another. To a sailor, it forebodes some sad disaster at the next port you touch at. To dream you are in a pit, and that you climb out of it, foreshows that you will have many enemies and experience much trouble, but that you will overcome them, marry well, and become rich; to sailors, it denotes that they will experience shipwreck, and be cast on a foreign shore, where they will be hospitably received, and marry rich and handsome wives and live at ease.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Pit · Dream section, heading 206; source lines 4049–4052 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(Falling in) Disappointment in love, misfortunes, danger: (being in, but climbing out) a difficulty overcome.
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
Pit · Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11435–11438 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream forecasting decline of business, possible descent to want and distress; to fall into a pit denotes misfortune and tragedy (Raphael).
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