Miller wrote: “To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances.” Compare 2 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
Swamp · Heading 1954; source lines 21583–21596 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain, and you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters.
To go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths, you will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining of which will be attended with danger and intriguing. See Marsh.
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
Swamp · Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12089–12091 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of getting into a swamp foretells vexations through lack of money.
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