Miller wrote: “To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons.” Compare 5 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
Worms · Heading 2243; source lines 24603–24616 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons.
For a young woman to dream they crawl on her, foretells that her aspirations will always tend to the material. If she kills or throws them off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek to live in morality and spirituality.
To use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity you will use your enemies to good advantage.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Worms · Heading 875; source line 5307 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Grub.) To dream of fish-worms, such as are dug in the garden, is a sign of health and good fortune; dreaming of any destructive worms foretells sickness and losses: if you dream that worms spin down from a tree and light upon you, it denotes difficulties and bad luck.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Worms · Dream section, heading 584; source lines 2096–2102 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you see a great number of worms in your path, is an indication that the death of either yourself or of some one dear to you may shortly be expected. For a young woman to dream that she has trod upon a worm that was crawling in her path, signifies that the engagement between her and her lover will be in danger of being broken off through the machinations of a jealous rival, but eventually a reconciliation will be accomplished.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Worms · Dream section, heading 475; source lines 5017–5019 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing worms is a sign of coming ill health.
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
Worms · Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12613–12616 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing them in the path augurs death to the dreamer or to his friends (Gypsy), Mediaeval symbol of death and decay.
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