Miller wrote: “To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion.” 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
Smallpox · Heading 1865; source lines 20664–20670 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet failure in accomplishing your designs.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Small-Pox · Heading 734; source line 4583 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Sores.) To dream that you have this disease, foretells health and good fortune: if a lover should be so ungallant, as to imagine that his sweetheart is thus afflicted, it is a sign that he will marry a great beauty; if she happens to be a beauty, it will be all right, of course; if not, he will look out for number two.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Small-pox · Dream section, heading 499; source lines 1828–1829 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one is full of the small-pox, denotes profit and wealth without infamy.
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