Fontaine wrote: “To dream of this metal is a sign your friends will all be false to you, it is also a sign of losses in…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine · Quicksilver
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Quicksilver · Heading 468; source line 3164 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this metal is a sign your friends will all be false to you, it is also a sign of losses in property. 49,
Felix Fontaine · Quicksilver
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Quicksilver · Heading 632; source line 4033 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Metals.)
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Quicksilver · Dream section, heading 421; source lines 1577–1579 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this mineral is a sign of trouble, discontent and unhappiness in the married state. To the lover, it is a sure sign of quarrel; to the sick, a slow recovery.
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
Quicksilver · Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11593–11595 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting changes, vicissitudes and restlessness (Gypsy).
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