Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business, and favorable crops to the farmer.” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Turkey · Heading 2070; source lines 22792–22807 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business, and favorable crops to the farmer.
To see them dressed for the market, denotes improvement in your affairs.
To see them sick, or dead, foretells that stringent circumstances will cause your pride to suffer.
To dream you eat turkey, foretells some joyful occasion approaching.
To see them flying, denotes a rapid transit from obscurity to prominence. To shoot them as game, is a sign that you will unscrupulously amass wealth.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Turkey · Heading 817; source line 5037 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a flock of turkeys denotes to a tradesman, or a farmer, that he will have a transaction which will bring him in a considerable sum in ready money: if a lover who is about to be married dreams of turkeys, he will find that his sweetheart has got a marriage portion in ready money.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Turkey · Dream section, heading 533; source lines 1933–1937 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream you see a turkey strutting about, is a sign you will overcome your enemies. To dream you see or are amongst a drove of turkeys, betokens success in your undertakings about this time. To dream of dead turkeys denotes that you will encounter trouble that you will soon surmount.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Turkey · Dream section, heading 435; source lines 4913–4915 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a turkey is a sign of plenty.
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
Turkeys · Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12299–12301 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting triumph over enemies (Gypsy).
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