Miller wrote: “To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are unfavorable to your advancement.” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Shoemaker · Heading 1833; source lines 20332–20339 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are unfavorable to your advancement. For a woman to dream that her husband or lover is a shoemaker, foretells competency will be hers; her wishes will be gratified.
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
Shoemaker · Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11897–11899 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are a shoemaker or even that you see one augurs a life of toil and difficulty (Gypsy).
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