Artemidorus wrote: “To dreame that you see or have children of your own and not other mens, is ill to man and wife.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
To have Children. · Book 1, encoded section 4 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dreame that you see or have children of your own and not other mens, is ill to man and wife. For it foretels care and heavinesse for necessaries, without the which children cannot bee nourished. But the male children bring good successe, daughters bring an end worse then the beginning, for they are married with a dowry. I know a man which dream't that he had a daughter borne, and hee borrowed mony for interest; and on the contrary side I knew another, which dream't that hee buried his daughter deceased, and it fel out that hee was constrained to pay a debt for which he was bound. So then his daughter made agreement with the debt. But to see other mens children is good when they are faire and well favoured, for this signifieth that a good and happy time is at hand.
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