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Miller wrote: “To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious…” Compare 2 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.

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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

Witch · Heading 2231; source lines 24504–24512 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it will eventually rebound to your mortification. Business will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you, home affairs may be disappointing.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Witch · Heading 870; source line 5284 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of a witch foretells that you will leave your home and sojourn among strangers: if the witch attempts to injure you, it denotes that you will be dependent upon strangers for your support. No intelligent person believes in witches, yet a great many dream of them, and the above is the horoscope of such a dream.

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