Miller wrote: “To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the…” 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
Shroud · Heading 1843; source lines 20432–20443 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends. Business will threaten decline after this dream.
To see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes.
To see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels will result in alienation.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Shroud · Heading 721; source line 4504 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Corpse.) To dream of a shroud is a sign of a wedding: to see, in your dream, a woman laid out in her shroud, foretells to a young person that he or she will either be present at a marriage, or will become a victim of Cupid’s archery.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Shroud · Dream section, heading 382; source lines 4784–4787 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a shroud is a very bad omen and often signifies death.
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