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Vein

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To see your veins in a dream, insures you against slander, if they are normal.” Compare 2 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.

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

Vein · Heading 2110; source lines 23192–23203 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To see your veins in a dream, insures you against slander, if they are normal.

To see them bleeding, denotes that you will have a great sorrow from which there will be no escape.

To see them swollen, you will rise hastily to distinction and places of trust.

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

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

Veins · Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12362–12363 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

A dream of trouble and of sorrows (Gypsy).

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