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Wool

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IN SHORT

Miller wrote: “To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities to expand your interests.” 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.

SOURCE ACCOUNT

Gustavus Hindman Miller

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints

Wool · Heading 2239; source lines 24572–24580 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities to expand your interests.

To see soiled, or dirty wool, foretells that you will seek employment with those who detest your principles.

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A. H. Noe

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885

Wool · Dream section, heading 571; source lines 2048–2051 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream you are buying or selling wool, denotes prosperity and great affluence, by means or industry and trade. To the lover, it is a favorable omen. Your sweetheart is thereby shown to be of an amiable disposition, very constant and deeply in love with you.

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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

Wool · Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12600–12602 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To buy or to sell, a dream of prosperity and abundance (Gypsy).

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