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Tent

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.” 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.

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

Tent · Heading 2002; source lines 22126–22135 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.

To see a number of tents, denotes journeys with unpleasant companions.

If the tents are torn or otherwise dilapidated, there will be trouble for you.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Astra Cielo

Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917

Tent · Dream section, heading 423; source lines 4885–4887 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of being under a tent denotes a quarrel.

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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

Tent · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12204–12204 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

A dream of war or a quarrel close at hand (Gypsy).

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