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Porpoise

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see a porpoise in your dreams, denotes enemies are thrusting your interest aside, through your own…” 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

Porpoise · Heading 1595; source lines 18029–18035 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see a porpoise in your dreams, denotes enemies are thrusting your interest aside, through your own inability to keep people interested in you.

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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

Porpoise · Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11497–11498 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

A dream of joy and happiness (Artemidorus).

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