Miller wrote: “To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with…” Compare 3 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
Violets · Heading 2128; source lines 23349–23360 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see violets in your dreams, or gather them, brings joyous occasions in which you will find favor with some superior person.
For a young woman to gather them, denotes that she will soon meet her future husband.
To see them dry, or withered, denotes that her love will be scorned and thrown aside.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Violet · Dream section, heading 449; source lines 4947–4950 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes fidelity on the part of your sweetheart and success in your undertaking.
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
Violets · Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12392–12393 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
In season a dream of success; out of season, law-suits; double violets, extreme happiness or pain (Gypsy).
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