Miller wrote: “To dream that you wear a sword, indicates that you will fill some public position with honor.” 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
Sword · Heading 1964; source lines 21699–21711 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you wear a sword, indicates that you will fill some public position with honor.
To have your sword taken from you, denotes your vanquishment in rivalry.
To see others bearing swords, foretells that altercations will be attended with danger.
A broken sword, foretells despair.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Sword · Heading 775; source line 4799 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of having a sword, is a sign of poverty: if you dream of seeing a man flourish one of these weapons, it foretells you will make a loss. A young girl who imagines her lover wears a sword, had better give up all ideas of silks and satins, and learn how to cook and wash, for she will be a poor man’s wife.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Sword · Dream section, heading 417; source lines 4870–4873 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of wearing one is a sign of honor; to be wounded with one is a sign of misfortune.
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
Sword · Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12107–12109 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To wear one is a dream denoting authority; to be cut with one, humiliation (Gypsy).
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