Miller wrote: “To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss of good employment.” Compare 5 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
Quoits · Heading 1659; source lines 18606–18616 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss of good employment. To lose, portends of distressing conditions.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Quoits · Heading 635; source line 4045 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a man dreams he is playing quoits, it is a sign he will soon have a quarrel. If a woman dreams she is playing quoits, it foretells she will have much trouble through life. To dream of quoits, is not a good omen to lovers.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Quoits · Dream section, heading 427; source lines 1591–1595 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If woman dreams she is playing at quoits, it denotes that she will have some disagreeable and laborious undertaking to go through. To a man, it is a sign of quarreling. Quoits were always considered a harbinger of ill luck by the gipsies.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Quoits · Dream section, heading 346; source lines 4695–4697 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A warning not to gamble.
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
Quoits · Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11596–11605 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream signifying losses, a change in circumstances (Raphael). "If you can make a heap of all your winnings And risk them on a game of pitch and toss..." — Kipling.
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