Miller wrote: “To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made by you, which will probably be…” 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
Sieve · Heading 1847; source lines 20473–20480 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made by you, which will probably be to your loss. If the meshes are too small, you will have the chance to reverse a decision unfavorable to yourself. If too large, you will eventually lose what you have recently acquired.
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
Sieve · Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11921–11922 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of waste and want (Gypsy).
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