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Thistle

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IN SHORT

Cielo wrote: “To pluck a thistle foretells a dispute.” Compare 2 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

Astra Cielo

Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917

Thistle · Dream section, heading 427; source lines 4894–4896 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To pluck a thistle foretells a dispute.

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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

Thistle · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12220–12222 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To mow thistles denotes insolence, to be pricked by one forecasts vexation (Gypsy).

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