Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite of artful persons and uncertain fortune.” 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
Thumb · Heading 2018; source lines 22292–22307 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite of artful persons and uncertain fortune.
If you are suffering from a sore thumb, you will lose in business, and your companions will prove disagreeable. To dream that you have no thumb, implies destitution and loneliness. If it seems unnaturally small, you will enjoy pleasure for a time. If abnormally large, your success will be rapid and brilliant.
A soiled thumb indicates gratification of loose desires. If the thumb has a very long nail, you are liable to fall into evil through seeking strange pleasures.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Thumb · Heading 796; source line 4913 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a girl dreams that her beau hurts her by pinching her thumb, it is a sign that if she marries him she will have to get her own living, and help to support him besides: for a man to dream of losing his thumb, or of an injury to it, foretells poverty—on the contrary, to dream of a big thumb denotes much wealth.
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