Miller wrote: “To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance.” 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
Shells · Heading 1825; source lines 20246–20254 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance. Pleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories. See Mussels and Oysters.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Shell · Heading 715; source line 4468 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Oysters and Clams.) To dream you find an empty shell is a sign you will meet with losses in business, but if, in your dream, you imagine the shell to be full, it foretells you will be successful in all your undertakings. If you dream you are opening any kind of shell fish for others to eat it foreshadows that you will have plenty of funds.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Shell · Dream section, heading 379; source lines 4776–4779 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A sea shell is a sign of success; a cannon shell, a sign of bad luck.
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