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Scorpion

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Miller wrote: “To dream of a scorpion, foretells that false friends will improve opportunities to undermine your…” 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.

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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

Scorpion · Heading 1789; source lines 19920–19926 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of a scorpion, foretells that false friends will improve opportunities to undermine your prosperity. If you fail to kill it, you will suffer loss from an enemy's attack.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Scorpions · Dream section, heading 453; source lines 1672–1673 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream you see scorpions, signifies ill luck and misfortunes.

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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

Scorpions · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11813–11815 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

Misfortunes through secret enemies (Gypsy). Ancient symbol of War (Churchward).

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