Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles through malicious persons.” Compare 3 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
Widow · Heading 2214; source lines 24340–24348 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles through malicious persons.
For a man to dream that he marries a widow, denotes he will see some cherished undertaking crumble down in disappointment.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Widow · Heading 865; source line 5262 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a girl dreams that she is a widow, it foretells that she will have many lovers: such a dream to a married woman, denotes that some man beside her husband is in love with her.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Widow · Dream section, heading 581; source lines 2087–2090 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
For a newly married woman to dream that she is a widow, signifies that she will be blessed with comfort and happiness in domestic life and be the mother of dutiful and obedient children.
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