Miller wrote: “To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Scaffold · Heading 1778; source lines 19818–19832 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object of your affection.
To ascend one, you will be misunderstood and censured by your friends for some action, which you never committed.
To decend one, you will be guilty of wrong doing, and you will suffer the penalty.
To fall from one, you will be unexpectedly surprised while engaged in deceiving and working injury to others.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Scaffold · Heading 695; source line 4355 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of going upon a high scaffold, shows that you will rise in the world: if, in your dream, you imagine that you fall from a scaffold, or from any high place, it shadows forth a misfortune that will make you poorer: a girl who dreams of climbing upon a scaffold, will positively marry a rich man, or one of distinction, who is far above her in position.
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
Scaffold · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11801–11802 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
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