Fontaine wrote: “To dream of sawing wood, or boards, foretells that you will do something that you will afterwards regret: if a young fellow dreams this,…”
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sawing · Heading 694; source line 4350 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sawing wood, or boards, foretells that you will do something that you will afterwards regret: if a young fellow dreams this, he will probably offer some indignity to his sweetheart, which he will find it hard work to get overlooked.
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