Miller wrote: “To dream of a zebra, denotes that you will be interested in varying and fleeting enterprises.” Compare 4 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.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Zebra · Heading 2260; source lines 24774–24783 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of a zebra, denotes that you will be interested in varying and fleeting enterprises.
To see one wild in his native country, foretells that you will pursue a chimerical fancy which will return you unsatisfactory pleasure upon possession.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Zebra · Heading 885; source line 5364 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing a zebra, is a sign of a quarrel: if you imagine that somebody presented you with one of these animals, or that you have purchased it, it foretells, to a young man, that he will marry a rich but quarrelsome wife, and that she will be constantly annoying him by bragging of her property.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Zebra · Dream section, heading 481; source lines 5036–5040 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see one means you will travel abroad; to ride on one, means “Beware of loss!”
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
Zebra · Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12666–12668 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A dream denoting misplaced friendship, ingratitude (Gypsy).
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