Craig wrote: “To dream of keeping a public house denotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, imprisonment for debt (Gypsy).”
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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
Public House · Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11545–11548 · OCR transcription
Original source heading: Public House
Original source (English)
To dream of keeping a public house denotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, imprisonment for debt (Gypsy).
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