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Tacks

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels.” Compare 2 historical dream books.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Tacks · Heading 1970; source lines 21784–21793 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels.

For a woman to drive one, foretells she will master unpleasant rivalry.

If she mashes her finger while driving it, she will be distressed over unpleasant tasks

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

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

Tack · Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12125–12126 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

A dream of quarrels and enmity (Gypsy).

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