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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream that you, or any of your friends, appear to be poor, is significant of worry and losses.” Compare 2 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

Poor · Heading 1586; source lines 17949–17957 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream that you, or any of your friends, appear to be poor, is significant of worry and losses. See Pauper.

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Felix Fontaine

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

Poor · Heading 600; source line 3862 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of poverty is a sign of good luck, but if you imagine you are so poor as to be induced to beg, it foretells that some one will either insult you or hurt your feelings, but yet your luck will not be impaired.

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