Miller wrote: “If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs of treacherous enemies.” Compare 3 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
Tar · Heading 1983; source lines 21884–21891 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs of treacherous enemies.
To have tar on your hands or clothing, denotes sickness and grief.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Tar · Heading 781; source line 4832 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of tar is a sign you will travel by water: if you dream you get it on your hands or clothes, it shows that you will have difficulties; and to imagine you accidentally seat yourself on tar, and get stuck to the seat, foretells that you will be detained against your will in some foreign country.
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
Tar · Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12133–12134 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Travels by water; on the hands, difficulty (Gypsy).
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