Fontaine wrote: “If a girl dreams that her wrist is large or mis-shapen, it foretells that she will come to poverty after…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Wrist · Heading 879; source line 5328 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If a girl dreams that her wrist is large or mis-shapen, it foretells that she will come to poverty after marriage; if she imagines that there is a tumor or swelling, or even a wart on it, it is a sign that she will be dependent on some one for her bread, and that person may or may not be her husband.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Wrist · Dream section, heading 566; source lines 2020–2022 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that your wrists are broken, is very good. It foretells that you will marry your present lover and be very happy.
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
Wrist · Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12637–12639 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of hurting the wrist augurs future injury through a fbolish act (Gypsy),
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