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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Toys · Heading 2043; source lines 22525–22535 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.

To see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated.

To give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored in a social way by your acquaintances.

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