Miller wrote: “Seeing ribbons floating from the costume of any person in your dreams, indicates you will have gay and…” Compare 4 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
Ribbon · Heading 1711; source lines 19147–19162 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing ribbons floating from the costume of any person in your dreams, indicates you will have gay and pleasant companions, and practical cares will not trouble you greatly.
For a young woman to dream of decorating herself with ribbons, she will soon have a desirable offer of marriage, but frivolity may cause her to make a mistake. If she sees other girls wearing ribbons, she will encounter rivalry in her endeavors to secure a husband. If she buys them, she will have a pleasant and easy place in life. If she feels angry or displeased about them, she will find that some other woman is dividing her honors and pleasures with her in her social realm.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Ribbons · Heading 668; source line 4222 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a girl to dream that she has got new, and beautiful ribbons on her bonnet or dress, is a sign some one will flatter her to her disadvantage: if she does not like the ribbon, it shows that she will hear of some scandal relative to herself; and if the ribbon is red, the scandal will impeach her chastity.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Ribbons · Dream section, heading 357; source lines 4721–4724 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of wearing ribbons is a sign of a visit from one you love.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Ribbon · Dreams interpreted, passage 30; source lines 197–198 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream of ribbons and gay plumes of feathers, denotes increase of fortune.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Ribbon” because that is the subject of its first clause.
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