Miller wrote: “To dream of willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your…” 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
Willow · Heading 2220; source lines 24395–24400 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your grief by faithful friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Willow · Heading 868; source line 5277 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of weeping willows is a sign of sickness and death: if they hang over a stream, it foretells sickness only.
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
Willow · Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12561–12564 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream of sorrow and grief (Gypsy). Old English writers associate this plant with graves and mourning.
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