Miller wrote: “To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities.” 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
Precipice · Heading 1611; source lines 18167–18177 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities.
To fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster. See Abyss and Pit.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Precipices · Dream section, heading 413; source lines 1548–1549 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Dreaming that you see great precipices, signifies much injury to person and goods.
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
Precipice · Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11526–11527 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To fall over, personal injury (Artemidorus).
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