Miller wrote: “To scratch others in your dream, denotes that you will be ill-tempered and fault-finding in your dealings…” 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
Scratch · Heading 1791; source lines 19931–19939 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To scratch others in your dream, denotes that you will be ill-tempered and fault-finding in your dealings with others.
If you are scratched, you will be injured by the enmity of some deceitful person.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Scratch · Heading 702; source line 4402 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of having your face scratched, is a sign that somebody has been disparaging your good looks: if a girl imagines in her dream that she has scratched herself with a pin, it foretells that scandal is afloat relative to her conduct with her lover, or some other gentleman.
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