Miller wrote: “If you dream of a silkworm, you will engage in a very profitable work, which will also place you in a prominent position.”
The historical account
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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
Silkworm · Heading 1850; source lines 20499–20507 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of a silkworm, you will engage in a very profitable work, which will also place you in a prominent position.
To see them dead, or cutting through their cocoons, is a sign of reverses and trying times.
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