Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event will work you harm and loss. See Prison.” Compare 2 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
Work house · Heading 2241; source lines 24590–24598 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event will work you harm and loss. See Prison.
The source heading “Work house” is shown on the Work-house page: same heading; hyphen variant
View source editionKatherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Work-house · Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12608–12610 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being in one denotes a legacy (Gypsy).
Take a question into your day.
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Also indexed as: work house
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