Miller wrote: “To see a porcupine in your dreams, denotes that you will disapprove any new enterprise and repel new…” 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
Porcupine · Heading 1593; source lines 18011–18021 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a porcupine in your dreams, denotes that you will disapprove any new enterprise and repel new friendships with coldness.
For a young woman to dream of a porcupine, portends that she will fear her lover.
To see a dead one, signifies your abolishment of ill feelings and possessions.
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
Porcupine · Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11494–11496 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream auguring the handling of a delicate aflfair (Gypsy).
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