Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business.” Compare 6 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
Tomb · Heading 2031; source lines 22417–22428 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business.
Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness.
To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments.
To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Tomb · Heading 802; source line 4953 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of visiting a large and magnificent tomb-stone foreshadows that you will fall in love with some one above you in social position: visiting a cemetery or grave-yard in your dream, is a sign that your turn will soon come to join the matrimonial ranks.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of a Tombe. · Book 2, encoded section 114 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
FOr to have a sepulchre or tombe, or to build one, is good for a servant: for he shall have liberty: and to him which hath no childe, for he shall have one that shall survive him: also it is often a signe of mariage, and getting of lands: it is a good dream in generall both to rich and poore, but graves falling, or fell and ruinated, are the contrary.
The source heading “A Tombe” is shown on the Tomb page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus "Of a Tombe")
View source editionA. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Tombs · Dream section, heading 528; source lines 1917–1919 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being amongst the tombs denotes a speedy marriage, great success in business and the gaining of a lawsuit, also the birth of children and unexpected news.
Anonymous
Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams · Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894
Tombs · Dream section, heading 39; source lines 346–350 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being amongst the tombs denotes a speedy marriage, great success in business, and the gaining of a lawsuit; also the birth of children, and unexpected news.
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
Tomb · Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12170–12172 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of marriage, the handsomer the tomb the more brilliant the alliance (Gypsy).
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