Artemidorus wrote: “To dreame to wash ones clothes, or an other bodies, is to staine, and lose, or escape some hurt, and danger about the body, or life:…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
To dreame one washeth his garments. · Book 2, encoded section 66 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dreame to wash ones clothes, or an other bodies, is to staine, and lose, or escape some hurt, and danger about the body, or life: for clothes being washed, lose their uncleannesse. This dreame also shewes, that some body shall learne and perceive our secrets, for to wash, is to take, and amend, or correct, and therefore it is an ill dreame for them which are in doubt to be reproved or surprised.
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