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202 symbols. Each book's entry is printed as the book prints it; the citation links to the page.

A 146 B 202 C 287 D 111 E 69 F 132 G 91 H 110 I 61 J 39 K 25 L 119 M 145 N 54 O 69 P 220 Q 25 R 113 S 254 T 149 U 16 V 54 W 119 Y 13 Z 8

Baby

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 42To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments. A bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends. Walking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring of smaller spirits. If a woman dream she is nursing a baby, she will be deceived by the one she trusts most. It is a bad sign to dream that you take your baby if sick with fever. You will have many sorrows of mind.

Baby Carriages

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 42To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial friend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you.

Bachelor

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him to keep clear of women. For a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity. Justice goes awry. Politicians lose honor.

Back · BACK

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power. Lending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often attends this dream. To see a person turn and walk away from you, you may be sure envy and jealousy are working to your hurt. To dream of your own back, bodes no good to the dreamer.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14To dream that your back is broken, hurt, or scabby, shows that your enemies will get the better of you. To dream of the backbone, signifies health and much joy. To see your back denotes misfortune. 2, 19, 42.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 108If just below either of the shoulder blades, it signifies that you will have misfortune and defeat in the enterprises you may undertake.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream you see your back, betokens some uneasiness; for the back to be broken or hurt, shows you will be scoffed at by your enemies; yet to dream of the backbone, signifies health and success in love, marriage and business.

Back-bite

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting. For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.

Backgammon

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting, meet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendships which will endure much straining. If you are defeated in the game, you will be unfortunate in bestowing your affections, and your affairs will remain in an unsettled condition.

Bacon · BACON

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you and hands are clean. Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states will worry you. To dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke. If clear, it is good.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14To dream of bacon or pork, denotes the death of some friend or relation, and that enemies will endeavor to do you a mischief; in love, it denotes a disappointment of some kind. 74.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of bacon denotes the death of some friend or relation and that enemies will endeavor to do you mischief. In love, it denotes disappointment and discontent.

Badger

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships.

Bag-Pipe

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags.

Baghavad Ghitta

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion; also rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey for your advancement will be planned by your friends. Little financial advancement is promised in this dream.

BAGPIPES

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14To dream of bagpipes, signifies trouble, contention, and loss of a lawsuit. 20, 1.

Bail

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise; accidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made. If you go bail for another, about the same conditions, though hardly as bad.

Bailiff

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect. If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying to work for your money.

Bake-house

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's career. Pitfalls may reveal themselves on every hand. For a young woman to dream that she is in a bake house, portends that her character wil{l} be assailed. She should exercise great care in her social affairs.

Baking · BAKING

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children; meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14(_See Oven._) For a woman to dream she is baking bread, foretells thrift. If she is a farmer’s wife, it is a sign of good crops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a miscarriage. 18, 54.

Balcony

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps final separation may follow. Balcony also denotes unpleasant news of absent friends.

Bald

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 43To see a bald-headed man, denotes that sharpers are to make a deal adverse to your interests, but by keeping wide awake, you will outwit them. For a man to dream of a bald-headed woman, insures him to have a vixen for wife. A bald hill, or mountain, indicates famine and suffering in various forms. For a young woman to dream of a bald-headed man, is a warning to her to use her intelligence against listening to her next marriage offer. Bald-headed babies signify a happy home, a loving companion, and obedient children.

Ball · BALL

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed people are dancing to the strains of entrancing music. If you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others, a death in the family may be expected soon.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14(_See Dancing._) If you dream you are at a ball, and are dancing with a lady, it is a sign you will marry her; if you dream that she is gone, and you are looking round to find her and cannot, it foretells that she will not live long after marriage. Dreaming of playing ball, or seeing it played, foretells the speedy receipt of money; to see the ball roll about, signifies delay in its reception. 54, 11, 55.

Ballet

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business, and quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts.

Balloon · BALLOON

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream. Business of every character will sustain an apparent falling off. To ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in business, and success will not attend you. 46.

BALSAM

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Splendor dazzles, grace alone enchains.

BALSAM-ROSE

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Let my image dwell always in your heart.

Banana · BANANA

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion. To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business, and self-inflicted duty. To see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise. To trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream you are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To dream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a girl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells she will soon be married, or ought to be. 4, 11, 44.

Banishment

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished to foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date. To banish a child, means perjury of business allies. It is a dream of fatality.

Banjo

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed. To see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries, but no serious vexation for a season. For a young woman to see negroes with their banjos, foretells that she will fail in some anticipated amusement. She will have misunderstandings with her lover.

Bank · BANK

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14If you dream you go to a large bank, and have money there, it is a sign that you will be poor at some future period of your life. 5, 78.

Bankrupt · BANKRUPT

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties. A warning to leave speculations alone.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14A bad dream, your business is in a dangerous position, and without great care you will be forced to stop. 17, 60, 46.

Banquet · Banquets

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors. To dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests, eating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price and age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature, and happiness among friends. To see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty tables, is ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of banquets denotes poverty and want.

Bantam

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will be small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly, or exposed to wintry storms, your interests will be impaired.

Baptism

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 44To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening by the practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement of your friends. To dream that you are an applicant, signifies that you will humiliate your inward self for public favor. To dream that you see John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan, denotes that you will have a desperate mental struggle between yielding yourself to labor in meagre capacity for the sustenance of others, or follow desires which might lead you into wealth and exclusiveness. To see the Holy Ghost descending on Christ, is significant of resignation to duty and abnegation of self. If you are being baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, means that you will be thrown into a state of terror over being discovered in some lustful engagement.

Bar

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable mode of advancement. Seeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of fortunes, and the consummation of illicit desires.

Barber · BARBER

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling and close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14To dream of a barber, denotes losses. 55.

Barefoot

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that you will be crushed in expectation, and evil influences will surround your every effort.

BARKING DOGS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14Is a sign you have enemies who will detract, and insult you. 17, 61.

BARLEY

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Come again to-morrow.

Barley-field

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45The dreamer will obtain his highest desires, and every effort will be crowned with success. Decay in anything denotes loss.

Barmaid

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity. For a young woman to dream that she is a barmaid, foretells that she will be attracted to fast men, and that she will prefer irregular pleasures to propriety.

Barn · BARN

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity. If empty, the reverse may be expected. _Barrel_.[19]

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14If you dream that you are in a barn that is well stored with hay and grain, it predicts that you will marry rich, or else inherit land. If the barn be empty, it will be the reverse of this, or else you will meet with a loss. 4, 75.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of a barn, and that you see it well stored with corn, denotes much good; it foretells to a man that he will marry some rich woman; to a maid, that she will marry a man who will grow very rich by his industry, and be promoted in the state. If you dream you see an empty barn, the reverse will happen.

Barometer

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To see a barometer in a dream, foretells a change will soon take place in your affairs, which will prove profitable to you. If it is broken, you will find displeasing incidents in your business, arising unexpectedly.

BARRELS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14Signify wealth if they appear full; if empty, poverty. 14, 1, 7.

Baseball

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented, and your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion. For a young woman to dream that she is playing baseball, means much pleasure for her, but no real profit or comfort. _Basement_.[20] To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you will see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them, pleasure will dwindle into trouble and care.

Basin · BASIN

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real friendships and elevations.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 14If you dream that it is full money; if empty, you will make many debts. 2, 13, 69.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of a basin, signifies a good maid; and to dream you eat or drink therein, shows you have a love to the servant maid. For a man to see himself in a basin as in a glass, denotes he shall have children by a servant maid.

Basket

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket is full; but empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8For a man to dream of baskets is evil; it denotes decay of business to a merchant, want of employment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman dreams she receives a number of baskets it is a good omen, and especially so if well filled; to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new lovers; to a wife, that she will have an increase in her family, and to the widow, that she will soon marry again.

Bass Voice

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some discrepancy in your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in your employ. For the lover, this foretells estrangements and quarrels.

Baste

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 45To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness. For a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing to her extravagance.

BAT · Bat · Bats

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight, may follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters. A white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death of a child follows this dream.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream of a bat, or bats, is a sign you will go on a bootless journey, or one that is not satisfactory. 42.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of bats is very inauspicious.

Bath

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude for one of the opposite sex, fearing to lose his good opinion through the influence of others. For a pregnant woman to dream this, denotes miscarriage or accident. For a man, adultery. Dealings of all kinds should be carried on with discretion after this dream. To go in bathing with others, evil companions should be avoided. Defamation of character is likely to follow. If the water is muddy, evil, indeed death, and enemies are near you. For a widow to dream of her bath, she has forgotten her former ties, and is hurrying on to earthly loves. Girls should shun male companions. Men will engage in intrigues of salacious character. A warm bath is generally significant of evil. A cold, clear bath is the fore-runner of joyful tidings and a long period of excellent health. Bathing in a clear sea, denotes expansion of business and satisfying research after knowledge.

Bathing

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of a bath is a very unpropitious omen; expect after it to experience many mishaps and much sorrow. If you are in love, your sweetheart will experience many crosses and losses; but to dream you are bathing yourself in clear water, denotes happiness, prosperity and success in love--if the water is dirty, then it foretells shame and sorrow, and a disappointment in love.

Bathroom

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box, denote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more lasting joys will result from this disappointment. For a young woman to dream of a bathroom, foretells that her inclinations trend too much toward light pleasures and frivolities.

Battle · BATTLE

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same. If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals made by others will mar your prospects for good.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15If you dream you are engaged in a battle, or see a battle, it is a sign that you will soon undertake some new enterprise, and will leave off the business or calling in which you are then engaged; it also predicts to a girl that she will meet a young man in whom she is much interested; to a soldier it foretells that he will be advanced in rank. 14.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of battle in the streets, forewarns you against secret enemies who will endeavor to harm you. If you are in love, your sweetheart is false to you.

Bay Tree

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46A palmy leisure awaits you in which you will meet many pleasing varieties of diversions. Much knowledge will be reaped in the rest from work. It is generally a good dream for everybody.

Bayonet · BAYONET

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their power, unless you get possession of the bayonet.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream of a bayonet indicates that you have vindictive enemies. 64, 7.

Beacon-light

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46For a sailor to see a beacon-light, portends fair seas and a prosperous voyage. For persons in distress, warm attachments and unbroken, will arise among the young. To the sick, speedy recovery and continued health. Business will gain new impetus. To see it go out in time of storm or distress, indicates reverses at the time when you thought Fortune was deciding in your favor.

Beads

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46To dream of beads, foretells attention from those in elevated position will be shown you. To count beads, portends immaculate joy and contentment. To string them, you will obtain the favor of the rich. To scatter them, signifies loss of caste among your acquaintances.

BEAM

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15This signifies you will attain a high position in life. 9.

BEAN BLOSSOM

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Forgive me, I misunderstood you.

Beans · BEANS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 46This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children. Dried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs. Care should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. To dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness of a well loved friend.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream of eating beans is a sign of trouble. If you are picking beans, it denotes poverty. 72, 18, 11.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream you are eating beans always signifies trouble and dissension.

Bear · BEAR

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind. To kill a bear, portends extrication from former entanglements. A young woman who dreams of a bear will have a threatening rival or some misfortune.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream of seeing a bear, or bears, is a sign you have one or more enemies; if a bear attacks you, it predicts that you will overcome your enemy. 68.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream a bear thy step pursues, A cruel foe some mischief brews.

Beard · BEARD

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose his will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery, and you are likely to lose some money in the combat. Gray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels. To see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations and lingering illness. For some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow risk if you do not lose property. To comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity, making you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions. For a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave celibacy; but she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream you have a very little beard, signifies suits at law; if it is a long thick beard, the dream is a good one, for it shows success; for a person to dream of his beard falling out, he will lose some near relative, or will come to disgrace. 47, 3.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6For a man to dream he has a long beard, denotes good fortune; if he is in trade, he will thrive; if he is in love, he will marry the present object of his affections, who will bring him some money; if he is a farmer, it denotes good crops, and an addition to his farm. If a married woman dreams of a beard, it is unlucky; it foretells the loss of her husband and that she will fall into great distress. If a maid dreams of a beard, it denotes that she will be quickly married and that the fruit of her womb is a boy. For a woman to dream that she has a beard is a very lucky omen, and denotes that she will speedily attain her most sanguine desires.

Beat

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47It bodes no good to dream of being beaten by an angry person; family jars and discord are signified. To beat a child, ungenerous advantage is taken by you of another; perhaps the tendency will be to cruelly treat a child.

BEATING

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15For married people to dream of beating some one, shows that they will live a peaceful life; to bachelors, good fortune in their amours; if a lover beats his mistress, or a lady her suitor, it shows that the match will be broken off. 5.

Beauty

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings pleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child, indicates love reciprocated and a happy union.

Beaver

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain comfortable circumstances by patient striving. If you dream of killing them for their skins, you will be accused of fraud and improper conduct toward the innocent.

Bed · BED

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries. For a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover and pleasant occupation. To dream of being in bed, if in a strange room, unexpected friends will visit you. If a sick person dreams of being in bed, new complications will arise, and, perhaps, death. To dream that you are sleeping on a bed in the open air, foretells that you will have delightful experiences, and opportunity for improving your fortune. For you to see negroes passing by your bed, denotes exasperating circumstances arising, which will interfere with your plans. To see a friend looking very pale, lying in bed, signifies strange and woeful complications will oppress your friends, bringing discontent to yourself. For a mother to dream that her child wets a bed, foretells she will have unusual anxiety, and persons sick, will not reach recovery as early as may be expected. For persons to dream that they wet the bed, denotes sickness, or a tragedy will interfere with their daily routine of business.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream that you are lying in bed, signifies that you are in danger; being in bed and not able to sleep, sickness; to see a stranger in your bed, brings quarrels in married life; a well-made bed, shows that you will become established in life. 63, 9.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream you go to the bedside of your lover, foretells a speedy marriage; if you dream you go between the sheets, you will have a child within twelve months after marriage, who will become rich and afford you support in your old age.

BED-BUGS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15Denote strife, and quarrels. 2, 10.

Bed-chamber

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To see one newly furnished, a happy change for the dreamer. Journeys to distant places, and pleasant companions.

Bed Fellow

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that some person who has claims upon you, will censure and make your surroundings unpleasant generally. If you have a strange bed fellow, your discontent will worry all who come near you. If you think you have any kind of animal in bed with you, there will be unbounded ill luck overhanging you.

Bedbugs

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 47Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states. Fatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion. To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness. To mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming but not fatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you throw scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you, but there will be useless fear of fatality. If the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication with fatal results is not improbable.

Beech and Myrtle Trees

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6Signifies wanton women and are good for those who would undertake any such business; to others they are pain and labor.

Beef

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind. To see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you. Loss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under pleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business, if otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.

Beer · BEER

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others drinking, work of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes. To habitue's of this beverage, harmonious prospectives are foreshadowed, if pleasing, natural and cleanly conditions survive. The dream occurrences frequently follow in the actual.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream you are drinking beer, is a sure sign of domestic troubles. 6, 8.

Bees · BEES

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements. For an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments. To a preacher, many new members and a praying congregation. To business men, increase in trade. To parents, much pleasure from dutiful children. If one stings, loss or injury will bear upon you from a friendly source.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15(_See Sting._) It is good and lucky to dream of bees; to a farmer it predicts good crops; to a lover, excellent success with his sweetheart; to a maid it promises a good and wealthy husband. 17, 62, 4.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream they sting you, denotes loss of character, and if you are in love, of your sweetheart. To dream you see them at work, is a very lucky dream; it forebodes great success by your own industry. To dream you see them making their honey under your own roof is the best omen in the world. For the rich to dream of bees, is rather unlucky, but to the poor, they denote comfort, affluence and success.

Beetles

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small ills. To kill them is good.

Beets

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in the land; eating them with others, is full of good tidings. If they are served in soiled or impure dishes, distressful awakenings will disturb you.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of eating beets, signifies freedom from trouble and expedition on business, because they make the body soluble.

Beggar · BEGGARS · Beggars

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management, and unless you are economical, you will lose much property. Scandalous reports will prove detrimental to your fame. To give to a beggar, denotes dissatisfaction with present surroundings. To dream that you refuse to give to a beggar is altogether bad.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream that a beggar annoys you, is a sign of misfortune, or some piece of bad luck. To a young girl who has a suitor, it predicts that if she marries him she will be poor. 26.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream of beggars is rather unfavorable, especially to lovers and persons in business. To dream they beg alms of you and that you refuse it, denotes misery, want, and a prison; if you are in love, some scandalous person will ruin you with your sweetheart. To dream that you give them alms, indicates success in business, and that you will obtain, after much difficulty, the object of your affections; your children will be sickly, and narrowly escape many dangers.

Beheading · BEHEADING

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure in some undertaking will soon follow. To see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of blood, death and exile are portended.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream that you see a person that is going to be beheaded, or if you see one beheaded, it is an excellent sign; in love you will be successful; in prison you will be released; and any trouble you have will soon vanish; it is also a sign you will soon meet a long absent friend who will be glad to see you. 74, 19, 10.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream you see any one beheaded, is a good omen; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your affections. If you are in prison, you will speedily gain your liberty.

Bell-man

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled amicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event or misfortune may soon follow.

Belladonna

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles. Women will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts will be made for places in men's affections. Taking it, denotes misery and failure to meet past debts.

Bellows

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance. To dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you. To hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help of powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have wasted energies under misguiding impulses.

Bells · BELLS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will worry you. Liberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent. _Belly_.[21] It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly, it indicates desperate sickness. To see anything moving on the belly, prognosticates humiliation and hard labor. To see a healthy belly, denotes insane desires.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a wedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell tolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the tolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her. 16.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream you hear the bells ringing, denotes a speedy marriage and that you will receive some very good news.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream one hears ringing of bells, if of a sanguine complexion, brings them good news; but to others, it shows alarms, murmurings, disturbances and commotions.

BELLY · Belly

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 15To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase; if one dreams his belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident; if any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be empty, he will become poor; if a girl dreams of a big belly, it is a sign of marriage. 24, 77.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 108Shows an indolent, slothful disposition, given to gluttony, very selfish, addicted to the pleasures of love and drink, negligent of dress, and cowardly; it denotes small success in life, many crosses, some imprisonment, and travelling, with losses by sea; but it foretells that you will marry an agreeable partner of a sweet temper, have children, who will be industrious and become very respectable in life.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase. If one dreams his belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident. If any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be empty, he will become poor, though he be rich in the esteem of many people in the world. If any one dreams his belly aches, he will be afflicted in his family and have many cares upon him. =Blowing the Fire.=--To dream you are blowing the fire indicates to the lover, that your sweetheart is very angry with you.

Belt

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and make engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity. If it is out of date, you will be meritedly censured for rudeness.

Bench

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one. If you see others doing so, happy reunions between friends who have been separated through misunderstandings are suggested.

Bequest

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties well performed, and the health of the young is assured.

Bereavement

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet with quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure. Bereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment in well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future.

Bet · BET

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings. Enemies are trying to divert your attention from legitimate business. Betting at gaming tables, denotes that immoral devices will be used to wring money from you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream that you bet with any one, shows that you will suffer from your own imprudence. 66, 12, 72.

Bible

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned enjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance. To dream that you villify{sic} the teachings of the Bible, forewarns you that you are about to succumb to resisted temptations through the seductive persuasiveness of a friend.

Bicycle

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49To dream of riding a bicycle up hill, signifies bright prospects. Riding it down hill, if the rider be a woman, calls for care regarding her good name and health; misfortune hovers near.

Bier

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 48To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution of a dear relative. To see one, strewn with flowers in a church, denotes an unfortunate marriage.

Bigamy

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49For a man to commit bigamy, denotes loss of manhood and failing mentality. To a woman, it predicts that she will suffer dishonor unless very discreet.

Billiards

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 49Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer. Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get in her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle, deceitful comrades are undermining you{.}

BIRCH BRANCH

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130How sweetly are sorrow’s tears dried up on the bosom of a sympathizing friend.

Birding

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream you catch birds, signifies profit and pleasure.

Birds · BIRDS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage. A wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams of this nature. Moulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment of the outcast and fallen by people of wealth. To see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring offspring. To see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. All disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave of prospective good. To catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning one's inability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception. To kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream of birds is much better for the rich than the poor; to dream of little birds, the contrary; to dream that you hear birds chirp is a good sign; to see birds fighting, signifies adversity; to see birds fly over your head, signifies prejudice by enemies. 14, 77.

Bird's Nest · Bird’s Nest · BIRDS’ NESTS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for business. With eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements. If young ones are in the nest, it denotes successful journeys and satisfactory dealings. If they are lonely and deserted, sorrow, and folly of yours will cause you anxiety.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream that you find one is a good sign; to dream that you find one without either eggs or birds, shows you will meet with great disappointment. 64.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream you find one is a good sign. To dream you find one without eggs or birds, shows you will meet with great disappointments.

Birth · BIRTH

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child, great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold. For a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16(_See Still-born._) To dream of a birth is good for a poor man; to the sick it denotes death. 18, 42.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream of one’s birth is good for him that is poor; but to him that is rich, this dream signifies that others shall rule over him against his will.

Birthday

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young, to the old, long trouble and desolation.

Birthday Presents

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments. Working people will advance in their trades. Giving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given at a fe^te or reception.

Biscuits

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes.

Bishop

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects. To the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss of good money. For one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will be his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant. If you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be successful in your undertakings in love or business.

Bite · BITE

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing. You are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream that you are bitten, foretells much jealousy and sorrow. 15, 19.

BLACK

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 112Generally healthy, but apt to be cross; fond where he fixes his attachment, and likely to make a good husband, and be careful of his family: but if short and curly, is usually of an unsettled temper, apt to show a want of prudence and carefulness in early life.

Blackberries

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky. Eating them denotes losses.

BLACKBERRY BRANCH

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Contentment and love.

Blackboard

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill tidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial security will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce.

Blacksmith

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage.

Bladder

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies. To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations will fail to give you much comfort.

Blanket

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 50Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white, success where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided through unseen agencies. _Blasphemy_.[22] Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed friendship will do you great harm. To dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune. To dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through affection and prosperity. The interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory.

BLASPHEMY

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16If you dream that you are cursing, it foretells bad fortune; if you are cursed, all your expectations will be fulfilled. 4, 72.

Bleating

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.

Bleeding · BLEEDING

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you. Fortune will turn against you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16(_See Fingers._) To dream of bleeding at the nose signifies loss of goods, and decay of riches; to a young girl it foretells the loss of her lover. 75, 19, 5.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream you are bleeding, denotes loss of goods and character, and that your sweetheart will not marry you. To dream you see another bleeding, indicates that some person who pretends to be your friend is about to take some great advantage of you. To dream you draw blood of another, denotes that you will recover a lawsuit and be successful in love and business. To dream another draws blood of you, is a certain prognostic that you will be unsuccessful in love and in business, and in everything you undertake.

Blindfold

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing elements are rising around to distress and trouble her. Disappointment will be felt by others through her.

Blindman’s Buff

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream that one plays blindman’s buff, signifies prosperity, joy and pleasure.

Blood · BLOOD

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a successful career that is opening up before you. The dreamer should beware of strange friendships. To see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry. Bad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines. To see blood on your hands, immediate bad luck, if not careful of your person and your own affairs.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream you vomit blood, is good for him that is poor, for he shall soon get a sum of money. It is also very good for him that has no children, and whose kindred are in a strange country; the first shall see a child of his own; the other will hear favorable news of his kindred, or see them returning home. 11, 19.

Blood Stone

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift, denotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this, gain one more worthy of her.

Blossoming of Trees

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream you see all sorts of trees blossoming, is a sign of joy, comfort and recreation. =Brewing and Baking.=--To dream of brewing and baking is the sign of an ill housewife, who lies dreaming in bed, when she should be at work and doing her business.

Blossoms · BLOSSOMS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time of pleasing prosperity is nearing you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16If you dream you see trees or plants in blossom, it predicts that you will get some money, or some article that you little expected. It also signifies that you will be pleased at something that will soon happen. 43, 14, 7.

Blotting Paper

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend. To see worn blotting paper, denotes continued disagreements in the home or among friends.

Blows

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble will threaten you. If you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow.

BLUE-BOTTLE

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Be simple and humble, and life will always appear to you in heavenly colors.

Blushing

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried and humiliated by false accusations. If she sees others blush, she will be given to flippant railery which will make her unpleasing to her friends.

Boa-Constrictor

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil; it indicates stormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will follow. To kill one is good.

Boarding House

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer entanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely to change your residence.

Boasting

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 51To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret an impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends. To boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust, and will use dishonest means to overcome competition.

Boat · BOAT

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water. If the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes threaten the dreamer. If with a gay party you board a boat without an accident, many favors will be showered upon you. Unlucky the dreamer who falls overboard while sailing upon stormy waters.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16(_See Oar, and Rudder._) To dream you are sailing in a boat in pleasant weather, and enjoying yourself, denotes good success in business; to lovers it foretells happiness; if the weather is boisterous, it predicts quarrels, which will be speedily settled; dreams of sailing smoothly in boats are emphatically good ones to all kinds of people. 71, 10.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream that you are on the water in a boat, provided you are in company, denotes prosperity and success in your undertakings. If you dream you are in a boat alone, it is a bad omen. To dream the boat oversets, is the most fatal of all omens.

Bobbin

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on you, and your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent in dispatching the same work. _Bog_.[23] Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you.

Boiler

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you will suffer from bad management or disappointment. For a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about a boiler foretells that sickness and losses will surround her.

Boils

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things to meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends will cause you great inconvenience. To dream of boils on your forehead, is significant of the sickness of some one near you.

Bolts

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will oppose your progress. If the bolts are old or broken, your expectations will be eclipsed by failures.

Bomb Shell

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits. Many displeasing incident{s?} follow this dream.

Bones

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you. To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.

Bonnet

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations, from which a woman should carefully defend herself. For a man to see a woman tying her bonnet, denotes unforeseen good luck near by. His friends will be faithful and true. A young woman is likely to engage in pleasant and harmless flirtations if her bonnet is new and of any color except black. Black bonnets, denote false friends of the opposite sex.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8For a maiden to dream she gets a new bonnet, gives promise of a new lover, but Mother Shipton says that much depends on the color; if green, he will be deceitful; if blue, he will prove affectionate; if pink, his love will not be lasting; if yellow or white, he will quickly improve marriage; but if a female loses her bonnet, it behooves her to be guarded of her virtue, for she is in danger of being led astray; if it be blown off, she will have something she dearly prizes stolen from her.

Book Store

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To visit a book store in your dream, foretells you will be filled with literary aspirations, which will interfere with your other works and labors.

Bookcase

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52To see a bookcase in your dreams, signifies that you will associate knowledge with your work and pleasure. Empty bookcases, imply that you will be put out because of lack of means or facility for work.

Books · BOOKS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 52Pleasant pursuits, honor and riches to dream of studying them. For an author to dream of his works going to press, is a dream of caution; he will have much trouble in placing them before the public. To dream of spending great study and time in solving some intricate subjects, and the hidden meaning of learned authors, is significant of honors well earned. To see children at their books, denotes harmony and good conduct of the young. To dream of old books, is a warning to shun evil in any form.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To be reading serious books, shows honor and station in life; to read lascivious books, shame and disgrace. 4.

Boots · BOOTS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections of your sweetheart. To wear new boots, you will be lucky in your dealings. Bread winners will command higher wages. Old and torn boots, indicate sickness and snares before you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16(_See Shoes._) To dream of new boots and shoes, indicates sweethearts to the single, and friends to the married; old shoes or boots show separation, and dirty or old ones are a sign of poverty and sorrow. 33.

Borrowing

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support. For a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank, a run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse, unless he accepts this warning. If another borrows from you, help in time of need will be extended or offered you. True friends will attend you.

Bosom · BOSOM

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some affliction is threatening her. To see it soiled or shrunken, she will have a great disappointment in love and many rivals will vex her. If it is white and full she is soon to be possessed of fortune. If her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage, she is about to come under the soft persuasive influence of a too ardent wooer.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 108Shows a quarrelsome and unhappy temper, given to low debauchery, and exceedingly amorous, indolent and unsteady; it denotes a life neither very prosperous nor very miserable, but passed without many friends or much esteem.

Bottles · BOTTLES

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid. You will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart, prosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, coming trouble will envelop you in meshes of sinister design, from which you will be forced to use strategy to disengage yourself.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To dream of bottles is a good sign; to a man, success in business; to a maid, speedy marriage; if they are broken, they signify sorrow. 56, 34.

Bouquet · BOUQUET

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To dream of a bouquet beautifully and richly colored, denotes a legacy from some wealthy and unknown relative; also, pleasant, joyous gatherings among young folks. To see a withered bouquet, signifies sickness and death.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16To receive one, much pleasure; to give one, signifies that your lover is constant. 43, 7.

Bow and Arrow

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability of others to carry out plans. To make a bad shot means disappointed hopes in carrying forward successfully business affairs.

Box

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that delightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results. If the box is empty disappointment in works of all kinds will follow. To see full money boxes, augurs cessation from business cares and a pleasant retirement.

BOX-WOOD

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130I hope continually.

BOY

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 16If a lady dreams that she is delivered of a boy, her life will be a pleasant one. 52.

Bracelet

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of lover or friend, is assurance of an early marriage and a happy union. If a young woman lose her bracelet she will meet with sundry losses and vexations. To find one, good property will come into her possession.

Brain

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion. To see the brains of animals, foretells that you will suffer mental trouble. If you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.

Brambles

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil. Law suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you, or some of your family.

Branch

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful hours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent.

Brandy

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 53To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction and wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true friendship from people whom you most wish to please.

Brass · BRASS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession, but while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear a downfall of fortune.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 45To dream that you see a brass ornament, is a sign your sweetheart will be false to you. To see any one working in brass, or cleaning that metal is a sign you will hear of the death of a distant relative who will leave you a legacy. 43, 11.

Bray

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions. _Bread_.[24] For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted with children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless labor and worry. To dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured competence through life. To see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer. If the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable dream.

BREAD · Bread

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17(_See Thick._) To dream of bread is an excellent sign. If you see a good deal, the better the dream. It foretells good fortune to either man or woman. To lovers it predicts that they will make a good match and be well off, if not rich. To farmers it promises full and abundant crops. 1, 15.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream you see a great quantity of loaves of bread, denotes success in life. To dream you are eating good bread, denotes that you will be shortly married. To dream the bread is musty and bad, denotes the loss of friends and that some near relation will shortly die.

Break

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture, denotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind. To break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring order will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings, such as jealous contentions often cause. _Breakfast_.[25] Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast of fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit, indicates hasty, but favorable changes. If you are eating alone, it means you will fall into your enemies' trap. If you are eating with others it is good.

BREAKFAST

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream that you are eating breakfast shows you will do something of which you will be sorry. 21, 4.

BREAST · Breast

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17(_See Milk._) To dream of breasts, denotes great gain and profit to men; but to a woman, losses. If a young woman dreams that her breasts are full of milk, it signifies she is near her marriage. 76, 1, 10.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 108A mole on the right breast shows an intemperate and indolent disposition, rather given to drink, strongly attached to the joys of love; it denotes much misfortune in life, with a sudden reverse from riches to poverty—many unpleasant and disagreeable accidents, with a sober and industrious partner—many children, mostly girls, who will all marry well, and be a great comfort to your old age; it warns you to beware of pretended friends, who will harm you much. A mole on the left breast shows an industrious and sober disposition, amorous, and much given to walking; it denotes great success in life and in love, that you will accumulate riches, and have many children, mostly boys, who will make their fortunes by sea.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream that you have hairy breasts and the tap pup covered with hair, denotes great gain and profit to men; but to a woman, loss of her husband. If a young married woman dreams that her breasts are full and spurting out milk, it signifies that she is with child and that it will be a perfect birth. If a virgin dreams thus, she is near her marriage. If a woman dreams she has sore breasts she is threatened with death.

Breath

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath, commendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of business deals will follow. Breath if fetid, indicates sickness and snares. Losing one's breath, denotes signal failure where success seemed assured.

Brewing · BREWING

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust persecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove your innocence and will rise far above your persecutors. Brewing in any way in your dreams, denotes anxiety at the outset, but usually ends in profit and satisfaction.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream of brewing is a sign you should be up and doing; in love, it denotes idleness in your sweetheart; if in trade, you will sustain losses. 31.

Briars · BRIARS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress, but if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends will come to your assistance in every emergency.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream that you are among briars and get pricked, foretells that you will have an angry dispute with somebody. If a young girl who has a lover dreams it, she will probably get vexed at him. 39, 78.

Briars and Brambles

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8If you dream you are passing through places covered with these things, it portends troubles; if they prick you, secret enemies will do you an injury with your friends and unfavorable tales will make your sweetheart shy of you; if they draw blood of you, expect heavy losses in trade. If you dream you pass through them without injury, then you will at last triumph over all your enemies and become happy.

Brick

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 54Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements in love affairs. To make them you will doubtless fail in your efforts to amass great wealth. _Bride_.[26] For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, foretells that she will shortly come into an inheritance which will please her exceedingly, if she is pleased in making her bridal toilet. If displeasure is felt she will suffer disappointments in her anticipations. To dream that you kiss a bride, denotes a happy reconciliation between friends. For a bride to kiss others, foretells for you many friends and pleasures; to kiss you, denotes you will enjoy health and find that your sweetheart will inherit unexpected fortune. To kiss a bride and find that she looks careworn and ill, denotes you will be displeased with your success and the action of your friends. If a bride dreams that she is indifferent to her husband, it foretells that many unhappy circumstances will pollute her pleasures.

Bridge · BRIDGE

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To see a long bridge dilapidated, and mysteriously winding into darkness, profound melancholy over the loss of dearest possessions and dismal situations will fall upon you. To the young and those in love, disappointment in the heart's fondest hopes, as the loved one will fall below your ideal. To cross a bridge safely, a final surmounting of difficulties, though the means seem hardly safe to use. Any obstacle or delay denotes disaster. To see a bridge give way before you, beware of treachery and false admirers. Affluence comes with clear waters. Sorrowful returns of best efforts are experienced after looking upon or coming in contact with muddy or turbid water in dreams.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream you are crossing over a bridge, denotes prosperity in life, and success in love; but to dream you are passing under a bridge, indicates difficulties in life, both in love and business; if you meet with obstructions, either on or under the bridge, it foretells illness. To dream a bridge breaks down with you, denotes sudden death. 56, 2.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream you are crossing over a bridge is a good omen--it denotes prosperity through life, and success in love. To dream you are passing under a bridge, indicates that you will never be perfectly at ease. If you meet with any obstruction on the bridge it foretells a fit of sickness; are you a lover, it denotes that your sweetheart will be afflicted with illness. To dream a bridge breaks down with you denotes sudden death.

Bridle

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will afford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and gain. If it is old or broken you will have difficulties to encounter, and the probabilities are that you will go down before them. A blind bridle signifies you will be deceived by some wily enemy, or some woman will entangle you in an intrigue.

Bridle Bits

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue and overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness. If they break or are broken you will be surprised into making concessions to enemies,

Brimstone

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose you many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making. To see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be threatened with loss by contagion in your vicinity.

BROAD NAILS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 113The person that hath the nails thus, is of gentle nature, good, and pusillanimous, and a great fear to speak before great persons, or those by whom they are in subjection; as also being guilty of extreme bashfulness.

Bronchitis

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will be detained from pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate complications of sickness in your home. To suffer with bronchitis in a dream, denotes that discouraging prospects of winning desired objects will soon loom up before you.

Bronze

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband. If the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be involved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur. Disappointment to some person may follow the dream. To dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued by envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will be uncertain and unsatisfactory.

Brood

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly. Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.

Broom

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 55To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in your fortune, if the brooms are new. If they are seen in use, you will lose in speculation. For a woman to lose a broom, foretells that she will prove a disagreeable and slovenly wife and housekeeper.

Broth · BROTH

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in all instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming. To lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment. To make broth, you will rule your own and others' fate.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream of eating broths, or soups, is a good sign, and denotes profit and gain. 32, 9.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream of eating broth is a good sign and signifies profit and gain.

Brothel

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace through your material indulgence.

Brother · Brothers · BROTHERS

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will have cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune; but if they are poor and in distress, or begging for assistance, you will be called to a deathbed soon, or some dire loss will overwhelm you or them.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream you see your brothers and sisters, signifies long life to the dreamer, but it portends a death in your family. 24, 8.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream you see your brother, denotes a speedy marriage in your family and that the dreamer will not be long-lived; if you are in love it is a favorable omen.

Brush

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer misfortune from your mismanagement. To see old hair brushes, denotes sickness and ill health. To see clothes brushes, indicates a heavy task is pending over you. If you are busy brushing your clothes, you will soon receive reimbursement for laborious work. To see miscellaneous brushes, foretells a varied line of work, yet withal, rather pleasing and remunerative.

Buckle

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To dream of buckles, foretells that you will be beset with invitations to places of pleasure, and your affairs will be in danger of chaotic confusion.

BUCKWHEAT BLOSSOM

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Not idle show, quiet domestic virtues alone ensure lasting happiness.

Buffalo

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56If a woman dreams that she kills a lot of buffaloes, she will undertake a stupendous enterprise, but by enforcing will power and leaving off material pleasures, she will win commendation from men, and may receive long wished for favors. Buffalo, seen in a dream, augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies. They will boldly declare against you but by diplomacy you will escape much misfortune.

Bugle

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To hear joyous blasts from a bugle, prepare for some unusual happiness, as a harmony of good things for you is being formed by unseen powers. Blowing a bugle, denotes fortunate dealings.

Bugs

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To dream of bugs denotes that some disgustingly revolting complications will rise in your daily life. Families will suffer from the carelessness of servants, and sickness may follow.

BUILDING · Building · Buildings

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To see large and magnificent buildings, with green lawns stretching out before them, is significant of a long life of plenty, and travels and explorations into distant countries. Small and newly built houses, denote happy homes and profitable undertakings; but, if old and filthy buildings, ill health and decay of love and business will follow.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream of seeing a large building is a sign that you will be introduced to some one with whom you will afterward become intimate. To a young lady it predicts that she will have a new admirer. 17, 25, 1.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream of being amongst buildings, denotes that you will change your present place of residence and that you will make many new friends in life; if you are in love it foretells your sweetheart is about to remove at a distance from you, and that you will be in danger of losing the affections of your lover by a new face.

Bull · BULL · Bulls

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 56To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you. If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of marriage, but, by declining this offer, she will better her fortune. To see a bull goring a person, misfortune from unwisely using another's possessions will overtake you. To dream of a white bull, denotes that you will lift yourself up to a higher plane of life than those who persist in making material things their God. It usually denotes gain. _Bulldog_.[27] To dream of entering strange premises and have a bulldog attack you, you will be in danger of transgressing the laws of your country by using perjury to obtain your desires. If one meets you in a friendly way, you will rise in life, regardless of adverse criticisms and seditious interference of enemies. _Bullock_.[28] Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger from enemies. Good health is promised you.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream that you have been gored, or received some hurt from a bull, shows you are likely to receive some harm from a great man. To dream you are pursued by a bull, denotes loss of friends and ill reports; if in love, your sweetheart will be in danger, and you will narrowly escape some misfortune. 64, 7.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream you are pursued by a bull, denotes that many injurious reports will be spread on your character. If you dream the bull gores you, or tosses you, then expect shortly to lose your liberty; it denotes that some person in power will do you an injury.

Burden

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power. But to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost heights of success.

Burglars

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous enemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness is not practised in your dealings with strangers. If you dream of your home, or place of business, being burglarized, your good standing in business or society will be assailed, but courage in meeting these difficulties will defend you. Accidents may happen to the careless after this dream. _Burial_.[29] To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining on the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations, and perhaps the happy marriage of some one of them is about to occur. But if rain and dismal weather prevails, sickness and bad news of the absent will soon come, and depressions in business circles will be felt A burial where there are sad rites performed, or sorrowing faces, is indicative of adverse surroundings or their speedy approach.

Burial

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream a burial passes by, News of the living doth imply.

Buried Alive · BURIED ALIVE

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to make a great mistake, which your opponents will quickly turn to your injury. If you are rescued from the grave, your struggle will eventually correct your misadventure.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream that you are buried alive denotes that you will be rich and powerful. To wealthy people it is a sign of addition to their wealth. 11, 14.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8For a man to dream he is buried alive, signifies he shall have much wealth.

Burned

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8For a man to dream he is burned, signifies (according to the interpretations of the Persians and Egyptians) that he shall be rich, honored and respected; but if he imagines that he was burned by a fire that did not quite consume him, he will inevitably perish in the end.

BURNING · Burning

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17(_See Fire._) To see, in your dream, one or more houses burning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that they will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will be augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down, the dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To dream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be foiled. Play your age first.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 4To dream of burning doth imply, A sudden danger, ripe and nigh; Of all escapes you then beware, For though fate threatens, it may spare.

Burns

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and flowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends. To burn your feet in walking through coals, or beds of fire, denotes your ability to accomplish any endeavor, however impossible it may be to others. Your usual good health will remain with you, but, if you are overcome in the fire, it represents that your interests will suffer through treachery of supposed friends.

Burr · BURR

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Like seeks like.

BUSINESS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 17To dream of being full of business, is significant of some unexpected good fortune; to finish it, marriage; if the business appears to be bad, it is a good sign. 41.

Butcher · BUTCHER · Butchers

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 18If, in your dream, you see a butcher killing any animal, it is a sign of the death of a friend or near relative. If a farmer dreams of seeing sheep killed, he will probably have a prolific flock. 73, 33, 16.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 6To dream of seeing butchers is in general a very unlucky omen; it always foretells some injury to the dreamer. If you see them cutting up meat some of your friends will be hanged, and you will experience much misery and poverty.

Butter · BUTTER

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions, wealth and knowledge. To eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles of manual labor. To sell butter, denotes small gain.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 18If you eat it, you will be surprised by some good fortune, but mixed with sadness. 11, 7.

BUTTER-CUP

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 130Your presence is consoling to me.

BUTTERFLIES

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 18To dream you see gaudy butterflies, portends much happiness and luxury. 46, 18.

Butterfly

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity and fair attainments. To see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter, or from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love, culminating in a life union.

Buttermilk · BUTTERMILK

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 58Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure, and some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer. To give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still. To dream that you are drinking buttermilk made into oyster soup, denotes that you will be called on to do some very repulsive thing, and ill luck will confront you. There are quarrels brewing and friendships threatened. If you awaken while you are drinking it, by discreet maneuvering you may effect a pleasant understanding of disagreements.

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 18Losses from an extension of business. To the sick it is a sign of speedy convalescence. 71.

BUTTOCKS

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 109Signifies shiftlessness and poverty, though a good capacity; it is a sign that you will be too lazy to do anything for yourself.

Buttons

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 57To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage. To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career. Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses and ill health. The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment, denotes prospective losses in trade.

The Witches’ Dream Book (1885) · p. 8To dream of bright buttons is seldom good; if rusty, it portends misfortune; if covered, sadness. If a man dreams he has lost all the buttons of his clothes, it is a sign he will not live long.

BUYING

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book (1862) · p. 18To dream you buy all sorts of things that one uses, is good; to buy that which is only for victuals and relief, is good for the poor; but to the rich it signifies expenses and great charges. 19, 2, 69.

Buzzard

Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) · p. 58To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will arise and work you injury by your connection with it. To see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss is about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach, foretells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous disagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself. To see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip or that unusual scandal will disturb you. C. ``_And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob; and I said, here am I_.''--Gen. xxx., II.