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Steeple

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of sickness and reverses.” Compare 2 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.

SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Steeple · Heading 1922; source lines 21271–21283 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of sickness and reverses.

A broken one, points to death in your circle, or friends.

To climb a steeple, foretells that you will have serious difficulties, but will surmount them.

To fall from one, denotes losses in trade and ill health.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Steeple · Heading 757; source line 4702 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

(See Tower.) To dream of going up to the top of a steeple, and looking off at a distance, is a sign that you will increase your property or effects: if a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will marry above her present position.

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