Miller wrote: “To dream of sailors, portends long and exciting journeys.” 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
Sailor · Heading 1760; source lines 19658–19667 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sailors, portends long and exciting journeys.
For a young woman to dream of sailors, is ominous of a separation from her lover through a frivolous flirtation. If she dreams that she is a sailor, she will indulge in some unmaidenly escapade, and be in danger of losing a faithful lover.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Sailor · Dream section, heading 368; source lines 4750–4754 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a sailor means good tidings from other lands.
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
Sailor · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11787–11789 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream warning you of a dangerous sea voyage (Raphael).
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