Fontaine wrote: “If a lady dreams that her face has become wrinkled, it is a sign that some one is, or has been, praising…” Compare 2 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Wrinkles · Heading 878; source line 5323 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a lady dreams that her face has become wrinkled, it is a sign that some one is, or has been, praising her good looks; an old bachelor who dreams this, “had better believe” that some young lady is in love with him, for there is no accounting for taste.
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
Wrinkles · Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12634–12636 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing them in your own face promises a green old age (Raphael).
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