Miller wrote: “To dream of rust on articles, old pieces of tin, or iron, is significant of depression of your surroundings.” Compare 3 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
Rust · Heading 1752; source lines 19587–19593 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of rust on articles, old pieces of tin, or iron, is significant of depression of your surroundings. Sickness, decline in fortune and false friends are filling your sphere.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Rust · Heading 689; source line 4326 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of rust is a bad omen: rusty knives, or tools of any kind, denote the destruction of property: rusty pails or utensils are so many signs of poverty.
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
Rust · Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11763–11764 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Destruction of property, trouble (Gypsy).
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