Miller wrote: “To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach a pleasing culmination.” 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
Plow · Heading 1570; source lines 17770–17783 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach a pleasing culmination.
To see persons plowing, denotes activity and advancement in knowledge and fortune.
For a young woman to see her lover plowing, indicates that she will have a noble and wealthy husband. Her joys will be deep and lasting.
To plow yourself, denotes rapid increase in property and joys.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Plow · Heading 591; source line 3820 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Husbandry.)
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Plough · Dream section, heading 207; source lines 4052–4058 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A good omen in love, courtship and marriage, though the good may be rather slow in coming.
The source heading “Plough” is shown on the Plow page: uS/UK spelling
View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Plow · Printed p. 244–245; NLM OCR lines 11454–11460 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting wealth through industry, also marital comfort (Raphael).
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