Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing trout, is significant of growing prosperity.” 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
Trout · Heading 2060; source lines 22695–22708 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing trout, is significant of growing prosperity. To eat some, denotes that you will be happily conditioned.
To catch one with a hook, foretells assured pleasure and competence. If it falls back into the water, you will have a short season of happiness.
To catch them with a seine, is a sign of unparalleled prosperity.
To see them in muddy water shows that your success in love will bring you to grief and disappointments.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Trout · Heading 812; source line 5012 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of catching trout is an excellent omen, as it foretells that you will get money—the larger the trout, the more cash you will receive. It is stated in some of the books that to newly married people such a dream foretells the birth of a child, but I have been unable to verify this, because most young married people will have children whether they dream of trout or not.
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
Trout · Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12276–12278 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting money, the larger the trout the more the money (Gypsy).
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