Miller wrote: “Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances in your family.” Compare 4 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
Weeping · Heading 2192; source lines 24114–24126 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances in your family.
To see others weeping, signals pleasant reunion after periods of saddened estrangements. This dream for a young woman is ominous of lovers' quarrels, which can only reach reconciliation by self-abnegation.
For the tradesman, it foretells temporary discouragement and reverses.
Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Weeping. · Book 2, encoded section 113 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To weepe and grieve, whether it be for any friend departed, or for any cause, it is joy, and myrth, for some good act, and not without reason: for our spirit hath some affinity and resemblance with the exteriour ayre, which invyroneth us. As therefore ayre is always subject to change from fayre weather to tempests, and from tempests to fayre weather and a calm, so it is likely that our spirit changeth from heavinesse to joy, and again from ioy to heavinesse. And therefore also to be merry, is a signe of heavinesse. But the party must have some cause of sadnesse, otherwise to be sad without cause, were a signe you should be sad for a cause.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Weeping · Dream section, heading 568; source lines 2032–2033 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one weeps or grieves, whether it be for a friend departed or any other cause, is joy and mirth.
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
Weeping · Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12515–12516 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of joy (Gypsy).
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