Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened with reverses in your business.” Compare 5 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
Thunder · Heading 2019; source lines 22307–22317 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened with reverses in your business.
To be in a thunder shower, denotes trouble and grief are close to you.
To hear the terrific peals of thunder, which make the earth quake, portends great loss and disappointment.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Thunder · Heading 797; source line 4919 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of heavy thunder denotes large crops to farmers: to tradesmen, mechanics, or speculators, it foretells a big business, or a successful speculation: if you are terrified by thunder, so much the better.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Thunder · Dream section, heading 522; source lines 1893–1895 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of thunder, signifies affliction to the rich, but to the poor repose.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Thunder · Dream section, heading 429; source lines 4898–4901 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a thunderstorm denotes danger or death to a friend.
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
Thunder · Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12242–12243 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
See Lightning (Gypsy).
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