Miller wrote: “To dream that rape has been committed among your acquaintances, denotes that you will be shocked at the…” Compare 2 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
Rape · Heading 1679; source lines 18819–18829 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that rape has been committed among your acquaintances, denotes that you will be shocked at the distress of some of your friends.
For a young woman to dream that she has been the victim of rape, foretells that she will have troubles, which will wound her pride, and her lover will be estranged.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Rape · Heading 649; source line 4121 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a female (married or single) dreams of an outrage on her person, (whether attempted, or successful,) it is a sign that some one of the opposite sex is in love with her: if she is married, the dream alludes to some man other than her husband. Such dreams bode no good.
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