Miller wrote: “To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs If you are caught…” Compare 3 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
Trap · Heading 2049; source lines 22581–22596 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs
If you are caught in a trap, you will be outwitted by your opponents.
If you catch game in a trap, you will flourish in whatever vocation you may choose.
To see an empty trap, there will be misfortune in the immediate future.
An old or broken trap, denotes failure in business, and sickness in your family may follow.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Trap · Heading 807; source line 4980 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of setting a trap to catch rats or mice, is a sign, to a girl, that she will receive the attentions of a dishonest lover: if she dreams of catching any, she will probably marry a great scamp, or be seduced by one.
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
Trap · Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12192–12194 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream connoting losses through law and lawsuits (Gypsy).
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