Miller wrote: “If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent, but exquisite joys.” 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
Wading · Heading 2143; source lines 23546–23561 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent, but exquisite joys. If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness, or some sorrowful experiences.
To see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication, as you will be favored in your enterprises.
For a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water, she will soon gain the desire nearest her heart. See Bathing.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Wading · Heading 840; source line 5132 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a girl dreams of wading in clear water, it is a sign that she will soon marry, and be delighted with her husband’s embraces: if she imagines that the water is rily or muddy, it foretells that she will enjoy the pleasures of illicit love. If a man dreams of wading, it denotes that he will be engaged in some intrigue with a female—the deeper the water, the more difficult the realization of his wishes: muddy water denotes loose women.
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
Wading · Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12424–12427 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
For a girl to dream of wading in clear water denotes a speedy marriage; in muddy water, illicit connections (Raphael).
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