Miller wrote: “To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love and comfort, and this will cause you…” Compare 4 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Sparrow · Heading 1888; source lines 20959–20967 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love and comfort, and this will cause you to listen with kindly interest to tales of woe, and your benevolence will gain you popularity.
To see them distressed or wounded, foretells sadness.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Sparrows · Dream section, heading 459; source lines 1687–1689 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see sparrows jumping about your door step, is a sign of good fortune attending any project you may set your mind on accomplishing.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Sparrow · Dream section, heading 223; source lines 4099–4102 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Troubles: (many) an early journey: (sparrow struggling to escape) a foreboding of mischief.
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
Sparrows · Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11981–11983 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A good fortune will attend whatever you have in view after this dream (Raphael).
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