Miller wrote: “To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen.” Compare 4 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
Scissors · Heading 1788; source lines 19906–19920 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen; wives will be jealous and distrustful of their husbands, and sweethearts will quarrel and nag each other into crimination and recrimination. Dulness will overcast business horizons.
To dream that you have your scissors sharpened, denotes that you will work to do that which will be repulsive to your feelings.
To break them, there will be quarrels, and probable separations for you.
To lose them, you will seek to escape from unpleasant tasks.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Scissors · Heading 700; source line 4386 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a pair of scissors, is a sign of a marriage; if a girl dreams of them she will positively be married within a year: to a married woman such a dream is a bad omen, as it denotes some gay seducer will flatter her, and probably succeed in enticing her from the path of virtue. Here is an old prediction in rhyme: 47.
To dream of scissors—a full pair, Tells a fair maid that soon she’ll marry; But to a wife it doth declare Her chastity will e’en miscarry!
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Scissors · Dream section, heading 373; source lines 4763–4765 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes that a friend will become an enemy.
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
Scissors · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11809–11812 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream forecasting marriage to a young girl, but very evil for a married woman (Gypsy). An erotic dream (Jung).
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