Miller wrote: “To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.” 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
Pole-cat · Heading 1578; source lines 17879–17889 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.
To inhale the odor of a pole-cat on your clothes, or otherwise smell one, you will find that your conduct will be considered rude, and your affairs will prove unsatisfactory.
To kill one, denotes that you will overcome formidable obstacles.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Pole-Cat · Heading 597; source line 3847 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a man dream he sees one, he will marry a beautiful woman; if a woman, she will marry a handsome man. If this delightful animal make an attack on you it is a sign you will suffer from the slander of enemies.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Polecat · Dream section, heading 410; source lines 1539–1541 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a man dreams he has a polecat, he shall have some ill natured woman.
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