Miller wrote: “To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming, foretells that trouble over small matters will…” 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
Stain · Heading 1912; source lines 21173–21181 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming, foretells that trouble over small matters will assail you.
To see a stain on the garments of others, or on their flesh, foretells that some person will betray you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Stain · Heading 752; source line 4674 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a girl to dream of stains on her dress, is a sign of scandal: if she imagines that the stains are in front, she will be accused of an improper intimacy with a gentleman; if on the right sleeve, it will be insinuated that she took what did not belong to her; if on the left sleeve, some one will be disparaging her veracity. If a lover dreams that his sweetheart’s dress is stained behind, it shows that she is untrue to him.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Stain · Dream section, heading 229; source lines 4112–4118 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(To dream of rubbing out stains which reappear) Retribution and punishment for sin.
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