Miller wrote: “To dream that a ransom is made for you, you will find that you are deceived and worked for money on all sides.”
The historical account
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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
Ransom · Heading 1678; source lines 18812–18819 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that a ransom is made for you, you will find that you are deceived and worked for money on all sides. For a young woman, this is prognostic of evil, unless some one pays the ransom and relieves her.
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