Miller wrote: “To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or…” Compare 3 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
Scythe · Heading 1797; source lines 19970–19977 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys. An old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends, or failure in some business enterprise.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Scythe · Heading 704; source line 4412 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Husbandry.)
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
Scythe · Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11822–11824 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
The loss of a friend through death (Gypsy). Mediaeval emblem of death.
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