Miller wrote: “To dream of thread, denotes that your fortune lies beyond intricate paths.” 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
Thread · Heading 2014; source lines 22255–22265 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of thread, denotes that your fortune lies beyond intricate paths.
To see broken threads, you will suffer loss through the faithlessness of friends. See Spools.
Anonymous
Everybody’s Book of Luck · Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription
Thread · Dream section, heading 237; source lines 4137–4144 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Beware of intrigues: (breaking) poverty: (entangling the thread of a spool or skein) difficulties, perplexities, business troubles.
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
Thread · Printed p. 258–259; NLM OCR lines 12226–12235 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting mysterious intrigues; to unravel, the discovery of a secret; a dream of gold thread denotes success through intrigue; silver thread, intrigue frustrated (Gypsy).
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