Miller wrote: “Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal and relative discomfort.” 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
Plums · Heading 1571; source lines 17783–17801 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal and relative discomfort.
To see them ripe, denotes joyous occasions, which, however, will be of short duration.
To eat them, denotes that you will engage in flirtations and other evanescent pleasures.
To gather them, you will obtain your desires, but they will not prove so solid as you had imagined.
If you find yourself gathering them up from the ground, and find rotten ones among the good, you will be forced to admit that your expectations are unrealized, and that there is no life filled with pleasure alone.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Plums · Heading 593; source line 3827 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an abundance of this fruit is a sign of health but yet you are liable to lose your life by an accident: if a girl dreams she is presented with plums, it foretells her early death.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Plums · Dream section, heading 405; source lines 1525–1528 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of plums, augurs but little good to the dreamer; they are the forerunners of ill luck, and show loss of goods and reputation. They are indicative of infidelity in lovers and much vexation in the married state.
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
Plums · Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11461–11465 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Green plums forecast sickness; ripe ones are fortunate; to dream of picking them from the ground and finding them rotten denotes false friends, poverty and disgrace. (Raphael).
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