Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement and favorable 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
Torch · Heading 2037; source lines 22473–22484 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement and favorable business.
To carry a torch, denotes success in love making or intricate affairs. For one to go out, denotes failure and distress. See Lantern and Lamp.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Torch · Heading 805; source line 4967 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see a bright torch-light at a distance in a dark night, and go toward it, foretells a successful journey; but if you stumble by the way you will experience an accident: to dream of carrying a lighted torch at night, is a sign that some distant friend will pay you a visit.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Torch · Dream section, heading 516; source lines 1873–1878 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of holding a burning torch in the hand, is a good sign to those that are young, for it signifies they shall enjoy their loves, accomplish their designs, overcome their enemies, and gain honor and good from all persons. To dream you see a torch extinguished or darkened, signifies sadness, sickness and poverty.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Torch · Dream section, heading 432; source lines 4906–4908 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes an invitation to a wedding.
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
Torches · Printed p. 257–258; NLM OCR lines 12173–12177 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
See Fire, Candles, etc.
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