Miller wrote: “To dream of shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you.” Compare 6 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
Sheep · Heading 1823; source lines 20223–20240 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you.
To see flocks of sheep, there will be much rejoicing among farmers, and other trades will prosper.
To see them looking scraggy and sick, you will be thrown into despair by the miscarriage of some plan, which promised rich returns.
To eat the flesh of sheep, denotes that ill-natured persons will outrage your feelings. See Lamb and Ram.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sheep · Heading 714; source line 4463 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of large flocks of sheep, is a sign of thrift and abundance, particularly to farmers, to whom the omen promises large crops: if many of the sheep have young lambs, it foretells domestic happiness and an excellent crop of children.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Sheep · Dream section, heading 478; source lines 1745–1755 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see a flock of sheep feeding, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success. To dream you see them dispersing, and running away from you, shows that pretended friends are endeavoring to do you an injury, and that your children will meet with persecution and great troubles. In love, such a dream shows your sweetheart to be fickle and little calculated to make you happy. To dream you see sheep shearing, is indicative of loss of property and the affections of the person you love; also of your liberty. To dream you are shearing them yourself, shows that you will gain an advantage over some person who meant to harm you, and that you will get the better of difficulties and marry the object of your affection.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Sheep · Dream section, heading 378; source lines 4774–4776 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes gain in business.
Anonymous
The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles · United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805
Sheep · Dreams interpreted, passage 33; source lines 206–207 · Text transcription
Original source heading: (no printed heading)
Original source (English)
To dream you are among sheep, means repose from trouble. To dream you meet a flock is lucky.
The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Sheep” because that is the subject of its first clause.
View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Sheep · Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11865–11867 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Prosperity and enjoyment, if scattered they signify persecution (Gypsy). Early Christian symbol for the church.
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