Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a tub full of water, denotes domestic contentment.” 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
Tub · Heading 2066; source lines 22752–22759 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a tub full of water, denotes domestic contentment. An empty tub proclaims unhappiness and waning of fortune.
A broken tub, foretells family disagreements and quarrels.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Tub · Heading 815; source line 5027 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a tub is a bad omen: if it be filled with water, you have evil to fear; an empty tub signifies trouble; and to run against one, sorrow.
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
Tub · Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12290–12293 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Always a bad dream; filled with water it denotes evil; empty it augurs misfortune; to run against a tub, grief, sorrow, etc. (Raphael).
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