Fontaine wrote: “To dream that a favorite slave has become ungrateful, and run away, is a sign that some one has been…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Slave · Heading 731; source line 4557 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that a favorite slave has become ungrateful, and run away, is a sign that some one has been tampering with him or her, but without effect; if, in your dream, you imagine that one of your favorite negroes has been impertinent or neglectful, and is to be flogged, and that you feel bad about it, it shows that some one will try to injure you through the medium of your slaves, and you should therefore look sharp to the characters of white people around.
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
Slave · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11950–11952 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing one punished denotes arbitrary injustice of which you will be the victim (Gypsy).
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