Miller wrote: “To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice some important engagement to enjoy some…” 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
Wake · Heading 2154; source lines 23670–23679 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice some important engagement to enjoy some ill-favored assignation.
For a young woman to see her lover at a wake, foretells that she will listen to the entreaties of passion, and will be persuaded to hazard honor for love.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Wake · Heading 841; source line 5140 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of going to a wake where drinking and howling is going on, is a sign of poverty and misery: if a girl dreams this, it foretells her speedy marriage with a man who will turn out to be a miserable drunkard. If a young man dreams of seeing his sweetheart at a wake, he had better back out from the bargain, as she will never be of much account, and may become a drunkard.
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
Wake · Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12435–12437 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of attending, denotes scandalous assertions (Gypsy).
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