Miller wrote: “If you dream of raffling any article, you will fall a victim to speculation.” 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
Raffle · Heading 1666; source lines 18663–18671 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of raffling any article, you will fall a victim to speculation.
If you are at a church raffle, you will soon find that disappointment is clouding your future. For a young woman, this dream means empty expectations.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Raffle · Heading 640; source line 4072 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Raffling in your dream is the same as gambling; it foretells poverty and disgrace: to dream of raffling for poultry is a sign that your family (if you have one) will want bread; if you are single, it shows that you will be apt to get seedy and loaferish.
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
Raffle · Printed p. 247–248; NLM OCR lines 11618–11623 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of doubt and uncertainty (Gypsy).
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