Miller wrote: “Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble.” Compare 5 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
Vermin · Heading 2115; source lines 23241–23250 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble. If you succeed in ridding yourself of them, you will be fairly successful, but otherwise death may come to you, or your relatives. See Locust.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Vermin · Heading 830; source line 5096 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of any kind of vermin, is ominous of ill-luck and enemies, especially if they are in the house, or near the fireplace; but if out of the house, they are unimportant.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Vermin · Dream section, heading 540; source lines 1955–1959 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are surrounded and attacked by vermin, some creeping over your body, and others assailing you in various parts of your frame, signifies that you will be gladdened and rejoiced to learn that you have become entitled to the possession of considerable property through the death of a relative.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Vermin · Dream section, heading 445; source lines 4939–4941 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes plenty and prosperity.
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
Vermin · Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12366–12368 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting sickness (Gypsy). A typical dream in alcohol addicts.
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