Miller wrote: “To see, or hear a violin in dreams, foretells harmony and peace in the family, and financial affairs will…” 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
Violin · Heading 2129; source lines 23360–23373 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see, or hear a violin in dreams, foretells harmony and peace in the family, and financial affairs will cause no apprehension.
For a young woman to play on one in her dreams, denotes that she will be honored and receive lavish gifts.
If her attempt to play is unsuccessful, she will lose favor, and aspire to things she never can possess.
A broken one, indicates sad bereavement and separation.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Violin · Heading 834; source line 5110 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Fiddle.)
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Violin · Dream section, heading 550; source lines 1977–1980 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one plays or sees another play upon the violin or other musical instrument, signifies good news and concord between man and wife, master and apprentice, brother and sister, &c.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Violin · Dream section, heading 450; source lines 4950–4952 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Denotes sympathy and consolation.
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
Violin · Printed p. 261–262; NLM OCR lines 12394–12399 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of social pleasures (Gypsy).
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