Miller wrote: “To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time, and cheerful home life.” 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
Saw · Heading 1775; source lines 19786–19807 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time, and cheerful home life.
To see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend a big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns. For a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed, and her counsels will be heeded.
To dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents.
To lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster.
To hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity.
To find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune.
To carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large, but profitable, responsibilities.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Saw · Dream section, heading 372; source lines 4761–4763 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Portends a satisfactory end in your affairs.
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