Miller wrote: “To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Prayer · Heading 1609; source lines 18142–18148 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure, which will take strenuous efforts to avert.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Prayer · Heading 605; source line 3884 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of prayer, or of joining in a prayer with others, is a sign you will ask a favor of some one who will refuse you: if you dream of hearing prayers at church, or in any public place, it shows that you will be requested to do something which you will refuse to do, and thereby make an enemy.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Prayers · Dream section, heading 400; source lines 1503–1505 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you offer up prayers and supplications to God, signifies happiness.
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