Miller wrote: “Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams.” 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
Salt · Heading 1763; source lines 19683–19694 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams. You will usually find after dreaming of salt that everything goes awry, and quarrels and dissatisfaction show themselves in the family circle.
To salt meat, portends that debts and mortgages will harass you.
For a young woman to eat salt, she will be deserted by her lover for a more beautiful and attractive girl, thus causing her deep chagrin.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Salt · Dream section, heading 370; source lines 4756–4759 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of using salt means a rapid recovery of a sick friend; to spill salt denotes disappointment.
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
Salt · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11797–11798 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Wisdom is here foretold (Gypsy). Salt is the symbol of wisdom, and of wit. See Attic Salt, etc.
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