Miller wrote: “Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune and great laboring, either physically or…” 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
Pitchfork · Heading 1560; source lines 17677–17686 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune and great laboring, either physically or mentally.
To dream that you are attacked by some person using a pitchfork, implies that you will have personal enemies who would not scruple to harm you.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Pitchfork · Dream section, heading 332; source lines 4659–4661 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Means you will be punished.
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
Pitchfork · Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11439–11442 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
An evil dream save to farmers, to whom it augurs wealth through toil (Gypsy). A symbol of Satan in. Christian art.
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