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Pocketbook

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Miller wrote: “To find a pocketbook filled with bills and money in your dreams, you will be quite lucky, gaining in…” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Pocketbook · Heading 1573; source lines 17805–17814 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To find a pocketbook filled with bills and money in your dreams, you will be quite lucky, gaining in nearly every instance your desire. If empty, you will be disappointed in some big hope.

If you lose your pocketbook, you will unfortunately disagree with your best friend, and thereby lose much comfort and real gain.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Pocket-Book · Heading 594; source line 3831 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of finding a pocket-book full of money is a sign of riches, but if it contains no money, it foretells a disappointment: if you dream you lose your pocket-book, it foreshadows success in business.

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