Miller wrote: “To dream of sliding, portends disappointments in affairs, and sweethearts will break vows.” 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
Sliding · Heading 1862; source lines 20638–20646 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sliding, portends disappointments in affairs, and sweethearts will break vows.
To slide down a hillside covered with green grass, foretells that you will be deceived into ruin by flattering promises.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sliding · Heading 733; source line 4575 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Ice.) To dream of sliding on smooth ice, foretells good luck: if a girl dreams that a young man assists her in sliding, and that she enjoys it, she will soon get an agreeable lover: ragged or wet ice, or holes in the ice, foreshadow difficulties. If a girl dreams of falling down on the ice, and that her lover falls with her, and overtops her, they may as well go to the parson at once, and have the knot tied, as it is a sure thing to happen.
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
Sliding · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11953–11956 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of success; to fall, however, connotes misfortune; to be tripped denotes an enemy (Raphael). See typical dreams.
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