Miller wrote: “If you dream of straw, your life is threatened with emptiness and failure.” 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
Straw · Heading 1936; source lines 21414–21423 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of straw, your life is threatened with emptiness and failure.
To see straw piles burning, is a signal of prosperous times.
To feed straw to stock, foretells that you will make poor provisions for those depending upon you.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Straw · Heading 765; source line 4738 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a bundle of straw denotes abundance; if scattered about, poverty.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Straw · Dream section, heading 409; source lines 4851–4853 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Is an indication of coming poverty.
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
Straw · Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12050–12051 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Misfortune, lack of money (Gypsy).
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