Miller wrote: “To see shepherds in your dreams watching their flocks, portends bounteous crops and pleasant relations for…” 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
Shepherd · Heading 1828; source lines 20272–20280 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see shepherds in your dreams watching their flocks, portends bounteous crops and pleasant relations for the farmer, also much enjoyment and profit for others.
To see them in idleness, foretells sickness and bereavement.
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
Shepherd · Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11879–11882 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being a shepherd is a dream denoting great piety and charity (Gypsy). Christ, it will be remembered, was called the "Good Shepherd."
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