Miller wrote: “To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty…” 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
Reprieve · Heading 1696; source lines 19022–19031 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety.
For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Reprieve · Heading 658; source line 4169 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a criminal under sentence of death dream of a reprieve or pardon, he may make up his mind that it is all over with him; and if any friend, who is interested in his fate, dreams this, it amounts to about the same thing.
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