Miller wrote: “To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness.” 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
Sting · Heading 1929; source lines 21323–21331 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness.
For a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow and remorse from over-confidence in men.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sting · Heading 760; source line 4716 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being stung by a bee or wasp, foretells an injury by unjust and scandalous reports: a young lady who dreams that a bee stings her, will probably have her chastity questioned.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Stings · Dream section, heading 472; source lines 1732–1733 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of stings, signifies grief and care. To many, they have signified love and injuries by wicked persons.
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
Sting · Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12036–12038 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
By a bee, wasp or hornet injury by a wicked person (Raphael),
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