Miller wrote: “To dream of swearing, denotes some unpleasant obstructions in business.” 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
Swearing · Heading 1956; source lines 21607–21616 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of swearing, denotes some unpleasant obstructions in business. A lover will have cause to suspect the faithfulness of his affianced after this dream.
To dream that you are swearing before your family, denotes that disagreements will soon be brought about by your unloyal conduct.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Swearing · Heading 772; source line 4782 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Blasphemy.) To dream that you hear violent altercations and profane swearing, is a sign that you will lose caste, and go down in the world: if a man dreams that in his anger he curses and swears, it foretells that he will come to poverty.
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