Miller wrote: “Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you.” 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
Snail · Heading 1868; source lines 20751–20759 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you.
To step on them, denotes that you will come in contact with disagreeable people.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Snail · Dream section, heading 391; source lines 4807–4809 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A crawling snail is a sign of coming dishonor.
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
Snail · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11959–11963 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To see a snail in your dream foretells honorable promotion; if it shows its horns it denotes infidelity, adultery, want of chastity, etc. (Artemidorus). The symbol of sexual power (Bayley).
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