Fontaine wrote: “For a girl to dream of raking newly mown hay, is a sign she will be married before the hay is eaten:…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Raking · Heading 647; source line 4108 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a girl to dream of raking newly mown hay, is a sign she will be married before the hay is eaten: young fellows who dream of raking hay with their sweethearts had better get ready their necks for the matrimonial noose, as they are past praying for.
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
Raking · Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11642–11643 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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