Miller wrote: “To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness.” 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
Tannery · Heading 1979; source lines 21853–21864 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness. Loss in trade is portended.
To dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work which is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you.
To buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful in your undertakings, but will not make many friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Tannery · Heading 780; source line 4827 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being in a tannery is a sign of health and riches: if a girl dreams that her beau is a tanner, she will probably get a good husband, and one who is well off, and will live to a good old age, for your tanners are usually tough customers.
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