• General Overview
  • Central Thesis
    • Dreams as prophecy: dreams are real communications from the higher self or spiritual world, not mere fancies.
    • Warning inherent: every dream carries prescience or warning if read by the observing few.
    • Spiritual cause: no anatomist explains psychic projection; thought itself proceeds from a spiritual source.
    • Three-fold man: body, soul, and spiritual body — the inner self sees when the will is suspended in sleep.
    • Symbolic language: the higher self speaks through adaptive symbols, often as a dead relative or master.
  • The Higher Self and the Sleeping Mind
    • Higher self: the inner light that guided Abraham, Krishna, Gautama, Elijah, and Jesus.
    • Will suspended: spiritual intelligence intrudes only when the human will is passive in sleep.
    • Two barometers: objective mind reads past and present; spiritual mind reads the personal future.
    • Supersensitive sleep: sleeping mind sees hours or days ahead, as ants and squirrels sense harvest and weather.
    • Thought forces: evil thoughts send pursuing phantoms; kindly deeds send guiding angels.
  • Types of Dreams and Principles
    • Three types: subjective dreams mirror the past, physical dreams come from bodily states, spiritual dreams are prophetic.
    • Mixed dreams: incoherent reflections fuse literal and allegorical portents.
    • No duplicates: nature abhors duplicates; interpret dreams by families, not exact repetition.
    • Kindred families: bad symbols are evil warnings scaled to the dreamer's station.
    • Dreamer matters: health, habits, temperament, and mental state are essential to true interpretation.
  • Developing the Dream Faculty
    • Receptive state: clear the mind and practice passive surrender before sleep.
    • Relaxation: loosen mind and body into a fully receptive mood.
    • Higher-self form: the dead relative's voice is the higher self taking a familiar form.
    • Averting disaster: possible when one grasps the inner workings and sight of the spiritual self.
    • Exaggeration: with the will suspended, dreams magnify emotions and distort images into malformations.
  • The Symbolic Encyclopedia
    • Alphabetical system: common, so-called meaningless dreams are selected and given esoteric import.
    • Animals: cats, serpents, dogs, and lions encode enemies, instincts, or powers to master.
    • Body and health: hair, hands, teeth, and blood reveal fortune, reputation, and hidden illness.
    • Household objects: keys, mirrors, tables, and clothing mirror domestic fate and social self.
    • Nature and weather: water, storms, harvests, and skies chart emotional and material fortune.
    • People and stations: kings, priests, mothers, and outcasts locate the dreamer in the social order.
  • Fortune, Warning, and Moral Counsel
    • Propitious signs: apples, ripe grain, clear water, and well-fed cattle portend prosperity.
    • Calamity signs: broken mirrors, falling teeth, muddy floods, and pursuing beasts warn of loss.
    • Love and marriage: rings, roses, bridal veils, and wedding clothes bind desire to promise.
    • Moral hygiene: evil thoughts infest the soul; good thoughts create a heaven.
    • Social conduct: scandals, oaths, theft, and generosity test the dreamer's honor and duty.
  • The Art of Interpretation
    • Not literal: meaning comes from the thought or sign implied by the object and its influence.
    • Infinite combinations: dreams are classed like digits in mathematics, not analyzed in detail.
    • Inner sight: dreaming a thing and seeing it next day is the spiritual body grasping the immediate future.
    • Why allegory: catering to material senses weakens spiritual force, so symbols replace direct grasp.
    • Harmony needed: intuition and reason, day thoughts and night thoughts, must unite for normal being.
• Deep Dive
  • Preface
    • Preface · I
      • Ancient and Sacred Authority
        • Sacred history: the Bible and revealed religion treat dreams as prophecy.
        • Great believers: Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare, and Napoleon credited some dreams with prophetic value.
        • Biblical proofs: Joseph's zodiac stars, Egypt's fat-and-lean cattle, and Herod's warning.
        • Pilate's wife: dream counsel urged acquittal, overruled by the mob's materialism.
        • Church doctrine: third- and fourth-century fathers made belief in dream divinity official.
      • Evidence of Psychic Sight
        • Flammarion's claim: dreams foretelling future events must be accepted as certain.
        • Moscow vision: a dying woman appeared to her father-in-law — something emanated from her soul.
        • Beyond the brain: no anatomist explains such projection; its cause proceeds from thought.
        • Spirit-to-spirit: voices, images, and warnings link souls across space; time annihilated.
        • Future exists potentially: determined by causes, the inner vision may know it in advance.
        • Skeptic's choice: deny the facts outright, or admit a psychic order with a spiritual cause.
      • Contemporary Dream Cases
        • Dreamer A: saw every detail of Corbett–Fitzsimmons four days before the fight.
        • Dreamer B: saw the khaki victory flag before war; foresaw Cervera's fleet destroyed.
        • Dreamer D: voice commanded corn trades — sell high, buy at 23 7/8; the market obeyed.
        • Dreamer E: dreamed his brother-in-law wounded twice; morning brought news of his shooting.
        • Dreamer F: white-robed figure said "I have taken all you have" — the baby died that night.
        • Dreamer G: a chum's farewell dream was fulfilled a week later by an accidental shooting.
      • Interpretation: The Higher Self
        • Objective mind excluded: the dream knowledge never existed in the dreamers' waking thought.
        • Higher self: the same inner light that guided Abraham, Krishna, Gautama, Elijah, and Jesus.
        • Adaptive symbols: it appears as a dead relative or the Master to warn the material mind.
    • Preface · II
      • Dreams as Divine Guidance
        • Divine instruction: God approaches man in deep sleep to change his purpose, as Job testifies.
        • Straight line: The spiritual world fixes on straight lines; the material world favors curves, hence charlatanism's marshes.
        • True Master's philosophy: Follow the straight line of inner consciousness connecting to the infinite mind.
        • Contemplative dreamers: Active lives exclude spiritual thought; the reflective find peace beyond carnal understanding.
        • Warnings to all: Sodom, Nineveh, and David received messages; God speaks to every class not stiffening the neck.
      • Man's Three-fold Nature
        • Triad: Nature and man are three-fold; one and two unite in the trinity underlying ancient philosophy.
        • Physical body: A visible atom of the physical earth.
        • Soul: The inner, imperishable double of all transpired; the book of life or death partly opened in dreams.
        • Spiritual body: Ethereal atom related to the infinite mind; the Great Spiritual Sun illumines the personal soul.
        • Will suspended: Spiritual intelligence intrudes only when the human will is passive in sleep.
      • Three Types of Dreams
        • Subjective dreams: Contingent pictures of the past, hidden in symbols or allegory, auguring fortune.
        • Physical dreams: Superinduced by anxious waking mind, opiates, fevers, or ill health; unprophetic.
        • Spiritual dreams: The higher self reflects approaching events onto the waking mind; deeply prophetic.
        • Mixed dreams: Incoherent reflections from several causes, fusing literal and allegorical portents.
      • Principles of Interpretation
        • Warning inherent: All dreams carry an element of warning or prescience, known to the observing few.
        • No duplicates: Nature abhors duplicates; no man dreams the same dream twice, so interpret by families.
        • Kindred families: Bad symbols are evil warnings scaled to the dreamer's station — a peasant's wealth is a coin.
        • Allegorical focus: This work selects common, so-called meaningless dreams and finds their esoteric import.
        • Automatic writing: Definitions came through passive nights of automatic writing, be it spirits or auto-suggestion.
        • Exaggerated signs: With the will suspended, a knock on the wall can sound like a pistol shot.
    • Preface · III
      • Sleeping Mind and Foresight
        • Sleeping mind: supersensitive to signs and sees hours or days ahead of waking mind.
        • Natural analogy: ant and squirrel sense harvest and weather before any outward sign appears.
        • Two laws: intuition governs the spiritual world; reason governs the material world.
        • Harmony needed: both principles must unite for man to achieve perfect normal being.
        • Divine impressions: God, the Spiritual Sun, imparts light into the passive and receptive soul.
      • Dream Mind and Waking Mind
        • Influence: dream mind is shaped by waking mind and often assists it in solving problems.
        • Premonitions: universal mind can impress future death, accidents, and misfortune on the dreamer.
        • Two barometers: objective mind reads past and present; spiritual mind reads the personal future.
        • Thought forces: evil thoughts send pursuing phantoms; kindly deeds send guiding angels.
        • Thought and action: thoughts are subjective creative force; action is their objective effect.
      • Symbolic Interpretation and Self-Knowledge
        • Interpretation method: meaning comes from the thought or sign implied by the object and its influence.
        • Infinite combinations: dreams can be classed like digits in mathematics, not analyzed in detail.
        • Dreamer’s role: health, habits, temperament, and mental state are essential to true interpretation.
        • Microcosm: man is a miniature world with physical and mental planes in cosmic interdependency.
        • Moral hygiene: evil thoughts infest the soul with vicious images; good thoughts create a heaven.
      • Warnings and the Higher Life
        • Nightly warnings: before catastrophes, dream mind fills with storms, bells, and phantom forms.
        • Subjective strength: retaining dream impressions requires developing inner receptivity.
        • Spiritual guidance: harmony of day thoughts and night thoughts points to a peaceful end.
        • Dream defined: an event in the mind’s own world when objective senses withdraw into rest.
  • How to Develop the Power to Dream
    • Cultivating the Receptive State
      • Clear mind: free it from material rubbish before sleep.
      • Negative condition: consciously practice passive surrender at bedtime.
      • Relaxation: loosen mind and body into a fully receptive mood.
      • True dreams: appear as realities or as truthful explanations of future events.
    • The Higher Self Speaks Through Relatives
      • Dead relative’s promise: warns of coming distress unless the advice is followed.
      • True source: the relative’s voice is the higher self taking a familiar form.
      • Material-plane reach: this form approaches minds still living near the physical world.
      • Averting disaster: possible when one grasps the inner workings and sight of the spiritual self.
    • Dependence on Subjectivity
      • Material natures: share little true congeniality.
      • Contentment: found by relying on your own subjectivity rather than others.
    • Dreams Exaggerated
      • Will suspended: the sleeping mind lacks waking control.
      • Excitability: dreams magnify emotional responses.
      • Distortion: images mutate into hideous malformations.
      • Fear and excitement: these malformed visions overwhelm the dreamer.
  • Contrary Dreams
    • Contrary Dreams
      • Opposite channels: constant dwelling on things distorts their shapes, throwing dreams opposite to waking reality.
      • False wakefulness: the dreamer feels awake, yet on waking gains no recuperation of mind or body.
      • Unsustained sleep: holding material ideas in the subjective state prevents full, restful sleep.
    • When Dreams Are Less Prescient
      • Non-prophetic illness: failing organs make dreams non-prophetic unless they warn of physical disorganization.
      • Symbolic medium: dreams are subjectivity's symbols impressing the material mind with coming good or evil.
      • Soul and spirit: the soul receives material thoughts and casts them on spirit; too many material ideas crowd out spiritual symbols, causing contrary dreams.
      • Spiritual growth: material subjectivity weaves better thoughts into broader power; mind, like muscles and forest-edge trees, is strengthened by exercise.
      • Moral affinities: simulating an ape, tiger, fox, or hog draws those traits; gross desires dwarf spiritual germs and rob subjectivity.
      • Missing ingredients: a deaf man lacks sound, a blind man light; dreams can use only forces the dreamer naturally possesses.
    • Two Dreams Are Never the Same, Nor Are Two Flowers Ever Alike
      • No identical dreams: creation never repeats a compound; even seemingly same dreams differ in some detail.
      • Varied perception: like the rose's changing fragrance, dream perception wavers with person and state.
      • Shared meaning: similar temperaments take the same meaning from apparently matching symbols, as two roses share a name but not identity.
      • Reception failure: material grossness, poor memory, physical weakness, or lack of faith keeps warning dreams from being retained.
      • Direct foresight: dreaming a thing and seeing it next day is the spiritual body grasping the immediate future, not allegory.
      • Why allegory: catering to material senses weakens spiritual force, so symbols replace direct grasp of coming events.
  • A
    • Loss, Fortune, and Moral Warnings (A · I)
      • Abandonment and Separation
        • Abandoned: difficulty framing plans for future success.
        • Abandoning others: unhappy conditions pile up with little hope of surmounting them.
        • Abandoning house: soon come to grief experimenting with fortune.
        • Abandoning children: lose fortune through lack of calmness and judgment.
        • Abandoning ship: possible business entanglement; escaping to shore keeps interests secure.
      • Sacred Places and Clergy
        • Abbey in ruins: hopes and schemes fall into ignoble incompletion.
        • Priest barring abbey entrance: saved from ruin by enemies mistaking embarrassment for progress.
        • Abbess smiling: surrounded by true friends and pleasing prospects.
        • Abbot at devotions: smooth flattery and deceit pull you into artful bewilderment.
        • Young woman talking with abbot: yielding to insinuating flatteries besmirches reputation.
      • Body, Health, and Physical Signs
        • Abdomen: great expectations; curb hardheadedness as pleasure approaches to your hurt.
        • Shriveled abdomen: persecuted and defied by false friends.
        • Swollen abdomen: tribulations overcome, then enjoy labor's fruits.
        • Blood oozing from abdomen: accident or tragedy in family.
        • Aches: halting too much in business; another profits from your ideas.
      • Peril, Travel, and Accidents
        • Accident: warning to avoid all modes of travel; loss of life threatened.
        • Hanging objects above you: danger; near miss means narrow escape from financial loss.
        • Looking into abyss: threats of property seizure, quarrels, and personal reproaches.
        • Falling into abyss: disappointment complete; avoiding it lets you reinstate yourself.
        • Abroad: pleasant trip with companions; sojourn in a different climate.
      • Money, Business, and Learning
        • Abundance: independent of Fortune, but infidelity may collapse domestic happiness.
        • Accounts presented for payment: dangerous legal position; paying them compromises disputes.
        • Academy: regret opportunities lost through idleness; returning means demands you cannot meet.
        • Acorns: pleasant things and gain ahead; decayed acorns mean disappointments.
        • Addition: struggle with difficult situations; finding an error reveals enemies' designs.
      • Temptation, Morality, and Reputation
        • Absinthe: waste inheritance on siren pleasures; young woman must resist lover's illicit persuasions.
        • Adultery: foretells arraignment; yielding is bad, successful resistance good.
        • Adam and Eve: treachery and artful women reduce you to loss of fortune and reputation.
        • Accused and acquitted: valuable property gained, but danger of lawsuit before possession.
        • Abhor: strange dislike of someone; suspicion of dishonesty proves correct.
    • Adversity, Fortune, and A-List Omens (A · II)
      • Enemies and Warnings
        • Adversary: meeting one means defending your interests, with sickness threatening; overcoming one escapes serious disaster.
        • Ambush: hidden danger will overthrow you if heedless; laying ambush means defrauding friends.
        • Affrighted: accidents and misery follow; nervous or feverish dreams signal the need for immediate remedy.
        • Affliction: disaster approaches when energy halts; seeing others afflicted surrounds you with ills.
        • Ale-house: enemies are watching, so the dreamer should be cautious of affairs.
      • Fortune and Success
        • Advancement: advancing in any engagement denotes rapid preferment and success in affairs of the heart.
        • Affluence: fortunate ventures and pleasant wealthy company await; young women should shun illusory fairy wealth.
        • Alabaster: success in marriage and legitimate affairs; breaking it brings sorrow and repentance.
        • Angling: catching fish is good; failing to catch any bodes ill.
        • Anvil: hot iron and sparks mean pleasing work or abundant crops; a broken anvil means lost opportunities.
      • Adversity and the Inner Struggle
        • Adversity: being in its clutches brings failures and bad prospects; seeing others in it portends illness and gloom.
        • Two forces: animal mind and spiritual mind present antagonistic motives on the dream consciousness.
        • Body vs. spirit: selfish enrichment of the body impoverishes the spirit; adversity rejoices the spirit while the flesh weeps.
        • Occult meaning: the old promise of prosperity from adversity is untrue; the spiritual forces guide this book's interpretations.
      • Love, Women, and Reputation
        • Amorous: warns against personal desires; scandal threatens unless young women choose moral companions.
        • Adventurer: being victimized marks you as prey for flatterers; a woman adventuress trades her favors for disgrace.
        • Afraid: a young woman fearing a dog may come to doubt a true friend.
        • Affront: a bad dream of tears; a young woman may be compromised into a scandalous situation.
        • Alley: fortune becomes less promising; wandering after dark warns a young woman of disreputable friendships.
      • Apparel as Life Omens
        • Apparel: clothing in dreams shows whether enterprises succeed or fail by its cleanliness and condition.
        • Colors: white means eventful, often sad change; black portends quarrels; green promises prosperity and happiness.
        • More colors: yellow brings gaiety and financial progress; blue carries aspirations forward; crimson escapes formidable enemies.
        • Misfits and loss: misfitting apparel crosses affections; losing clothing disturbs business and love affairs.
        • Distorted images: unearthly light or distorted faces warn that a worthy plan will miscarry.
    • Dream Omens and Practical Striving (A · III)
      • Propitious Omens and Prosperity
        • Apples: ripe fruit on green trees means hopes can now be realized; eat only faultless apples.
        • Auction: hearing the auctioneer or buying at auction promises bright prospects and good trade.
        • Bank: receiving gold, silver, or banknotes brings gain, honor, and respect.
        • Banquet: well-filled tables with happy guests foretell enormous gain and loyal friends.
        • Barley-field: filled fields crown every effort with success; decay in the field means loss.
        • Barn: a well-stocked barn with ripe grain and fat stock is an omen of great prosperity.
      • Warnings and Calamity
        • Apparition: calamity threatens property and life; watch over those who depend on you.
        • Arm: an amputated arm portends separation or divorce; beware deceit and fraud.
        • Ashes: ashes bring woe and bitter changes, from failed crops to wayward children.
        • Asp: deadly enemies defame character; sweethearts wrong each other and respect is lost.
        • Assassin: secret enemies cause losses; receiving the assassin’s blow means trials remain unsurmounted.
        • Barefoot/Balloon: barefoot night wandering crushes expectation; ascending in a balloon is an unfortunate journey.
      • People, Rank, and Reputation
        • Archbishop: in robes, obstacles block public honor; in common dress, prominent people aid success.
        • Architect: drawing plans warns of a business change ending in loss; young women meet rebuffs in marriage aims.
        • Attorney: disputes and false claims arise; a defending attorney brings help but more worry than enemies.
        • Bachelor: for a man, warns to avoid women; for a woman, portends impure love and lost honor.
        • Barmaid: for men, low desires and scorn of purity; for young women, attraction to fast men.
        • Aunt: a young woman dreaming of an aunt faces sharp censure; a smiling aunt grants reconciliation.
      • Conduct, Conscience, and Social Pleasures
        • Back/Back-bite: a nude back means loss of power; joining backbiting turns good fortune bad.
        • Atonement: for most, joy and safe speculation; another’s sacrifice for your faults humiliates you.
        • Baptism: temperance is needed; seeking public favor humiliates the inner self, and fire baptism exposes lustful secrets.
        • Automobile: restlessness under pleasant conditions invites unwise changes; breakdowns and rivals frustrate plans.
        • Ball/Ballet: beautiful dancing brings satisfaction; gloom or ballet signals death, infidelity, or quarrels.
        • Awake: strange happenings bring gloom, but green fields promise good mixed with disappointments.
      • Work, Travel, and Inner Striving
        • Ass: burdened donkeys reward patience and toil; an ass pursuing you portends scandal.
        • Author: rejected manuscript is finally accepted as original; seeing a writer at work predicts literary worry.
        • Astral/Atlas: astral plans culminate in distinction; atlas urges study before travel or change.
        • Asylum/Augur: asylum means sickness and mental struggle; augurs forecast labor and toil.
        • Asceticism/Aura: asceticism fascinates strangers but repels friends; aura marks mental unrest and inward discovery.
        • Baghavad Ghitta: seclusion and rest for exhausted faculties; friends plan a journey, with little financial gain.
    • Omens of Body, Home, and Fortune (A · IV)
      • Bodily States and Physical Omens
        • Bleeding: portends accidents, malicious reports, and fortune turning against you.
        • Blood: blood-stained garments signal enemies attacking success; blood on hands warns of immediate bad luck.
        • Blows: receiving a blow threatens brain trouble; defending yourself raises business.
        • Blindness: sudden change from affluence to poverty; seeing others blind means someone worthy needs aid.
        • Blushing: young women face false accusations; seeing others blush invites flippant railery.
        • Bath: cold clear bath brings joy and health; warm or muddy water signals evil, death, or intrigue.
      • Animals and Creatures as Portents
        • Bats: sorrows, calamities, death of kin or loss of limbs; white bat nearly sure sign of death.
        • Bees: pleasant and profitable engagements across callings, but a sting means injury from a friendly source.
        • Bears: overwhelming competition; killing one portends escape from entanglements.
        • Beetles: poverty and small ills if on you; killing them is good.
        • Birds: beautiful plumage and flying birds signal prosperity; wounded or songless birds mean sorrow and inhumanity.
        • Blackberries: many ills; gathering or eating them brings loss.
      • Domestic Scenes and Objects
        • Beds: clean white bed means peace; wetting the bed portends sickness or tragedy.
        • Bedbugs: continued sickness and unhappy states; killing them with scalding water indicates grave but nonfatal illness.
        • Basement: sees prosperous opportunities abating, pleasure dwindling into care.
        • Basket: full basket brings unqualified success; empty basket indicates discontent and sorrow.
        • Blankets: new white blankets mean success where failure feared; soiled ones treachery.
        • Bible: innocent enjoyment is offered; vilifying its teachings warns of yielding to temptation.
      • Social Relations and Reputation
        • Beard: uncongenial opposition, money loss; combing and admiring it shows vanity that repels companions.
        • Beggar: bad management and scandalous reports; refusing to give is altogether bad.
        • Bishop: meeting a bishop's approval brings success in love or business; otherwise hard work and worry.
        • Bigamy: man loses manhood and mentality; woman suffers dishonor unless discreet.
        • Billiards: coming troubles, lawsuits, slander; idle tables reveal deceitful comrades.
        • Birth: married woman dreaming of birth gains joy and legacy; single woman risks loss of virtue and abandonment.
      • Business, Fortune, and Change
        • Barometer: profitable change in affairs; broken barometer warns of unexpected displeasing incidents.
        • Battle: striving with difficulties ends in victory; defeat means others' bad deals mar your prospects.
        • Beacon-light: fair seas and prosperity for sailors; light going out in storm predicts reverses.
        • Blacksmith: laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage.
        • Betting: avoid new undertakings; enemies divert attention from legitimate business.
    • B-Symbols: Fortune, Flesh, and Foes (A · V)
      • Animals and Enemies
        • Boa-constrictor: stormy times and bad fortune; killing it turns the omen good.
        • Bull: pursuing bull brings business trouble; white bull means rising above materialism.
        • Bulldog: friendly bulldog promises rise despite critics; attack warns against perjury.
        • Buffalo: enemies are stubborn but stupid; diplomacy or willpower wins.
        • Buzzard: buzzards herald scandal; watching them fly away smooths over gossip.
      • Water, Travel, and Obstacles
        • Boat: clear water forecasts bright prospects; stormy water brings cares and unhappy changes.
        • Bridge: safe crossing overcomes difficulties; broken or failing bridge warns of treachery and loss.
        • Bog: heavy burdens make efforts to rise useless; illness and worries oppress.
        • Boiler: broken boiler means bad management; cellar boiler brings sickness and losses.
        • Burden: carrying a heavy burden shows oppressive cares; struggling free wins success.
      • Food, Drink, and Domestic Rituals
        • Bread: good bread assures lifelong competence; impure bread predicts want and misery.
        • Butter: fresh golden butter brings health and riches; rancid butter means hard-won gains.
        • Broth: sincere friends uphold you; making broth puts your fate in command.
        • Breakfast: fresh milk, eggs, and fruit indicate hasty favorable changes; eating alone falls into enemy trap.
        • Bottles: filled bottles promise success in heart affairs; empty bottles bring sinister entanglements.
      • Love, Kinship, and Social Standing
        • Bride: young woman dreaming she is a bride foretells inheritance; kissing a bride reconciles friends.
        • Bonnet: new colored bonnet invites flirtations; black bonnet reveals false friends.
        • Bracelet: gift of a bracelet promises early marriage; losing one brings vexations.
        • Brothers: energetic brothers signify good fortune; distressed brothers warn of death or loss.
        • Brothel: visiting a brothel means disgrace through material indulgence.
      • Work, Enterprise, and Fortune
        • Books: studying books brings honor and riches; old books warn against evil.
        • Box: opening a goods box reveals wealth and journeys; empty box means disappointment.
        • Bouquet: rich bouquet signals legacy and joyous gatherings; withered bouquet brings sickness.
        • Brick: brick signifies unsettled business; making brick often fails to amass wealth.
        • Buckle: buckles invite pleasure; affairs risk chaotic confusion.
      • Health, Sickness, and Mortality
        • Boils: running boils mean unpleasant events; forehead boils signify sickness near you.
        • Bones: protruding bones reveal treachery; bone piles portend famine and contamination.
        • Brain: seeing your brain means irritating surroundings; eating animal brains brings knowledge.
        • Burns: burning fitly signals good health and friends; being overcome points to treachery.
        • Burial: sunny burial indicates kin's health or a marriage; rainy burial brings sickness and bad news.
  • C
    • C-List Omens, Animals, and Warnings (C · I)
      • Animals as Omens
        • Cat: ill luck unless killed or banished; attack means enemies blacken your name.
        • White cat: seemingly harmless entanglements cause sorrow and loss.
        • Canary: unexpected pleasure; a dead canary means unfaithful friends.
        • Camels: patience under anguish; owning one signals rich mining property.
        • Calves grazing: festive gatherings; seekers see wealth increasing.
      • Food and Household Objects
        • Cabbage: evil omen; green cabbage indicates infidelity in love.
        • Cakes: sweet cakes bring gain; a young woman's wedding cake is bad luck.
        • Candy: making candy means profit; eating fresh candy brings love-making and pleasure.
        • Candles: steady flame means constancy; wasting candle warns of slander.
        • Carpet: walking on carpet promises prosperity and wealthy friends.
      • Travel, Vehicles, and Places
        • Cab: riding cab means pleasant work; night ride with others portends a hidden secret.
        • Carriage: riding one brings short sickness followed by health and position.
        • Cars: missing one foils prospects; getting off means successful schemes.
        • Canoe: calm water denotes confidence; rough water warns of disappointment.
        • Cabin: ship cabin means mischief and loss through unstable witnesses.
      • Love, Society, and Reputation
        • Cards: social play brings hopes realized; playing for stakes entangles in serious trouble.
        • Carnival: participating means unusual pleasure; masked figures imply discord at home.
        • Captive: captivity warns of treachery; taking captives draws you to low status.
        • Calumny: being its subject means interests suffer from gossiping friends.
        • Captain: seeing a captain realizes aspirations; a lover captain stirs jealousy.
      • Sickness, Danger, and Death
        • Cancer: treated cancer means sudden rise; cancer dream brings sorrow and cold formality.
        • Calomel: enemies deceive through friends; a trusting young woman will be victimized.
        • Canker: evil omen; death for the young, loneliness for the aged.
        • Cannon: foreign danger to country; without war, warns of struggle and defeat.
        • Cackling hens: shock from unexpected death; sickness brings poverty.
      • Money and Enterprise
        • Cash: borrowed cash makes you seem worthy yet mercenary; spending it reveals deceit.
        • Cash box: full box means favorable prospects; empty box means meager returns.
        • Castle: inside means wealth and travel; leaving predicts loss of possessions or love.
        • Cable: hazardous work, if completed, brings riches and honor.
        • Cane: growing cane advances fortune; cut cane means absolute failure.
    • C-List Omens: Fortune, Folly, Faith (C · II)
      • Prosperity and Good Fortune
        • Fat cattle grazing: prosperity and happiness through a congenial companion.
        • Well-filled udders: great good fortune; milking signifies wealth earned by many.
        • Christmas tree and chimes: joyful occasions, fair prospects, fulfilled anticipations.
        • Beautiful children: portent of prosperity, blessings, and successful enterprises.
        • Eating cherries or celery: popularity, desired objects, boundless love, and influence.
      • Warnings, Loss, and Deceit
        • Caterpillar and chameleon: hypocritical people, deceitful appearances, faithless friends.
        • Chaff and cheese: empty undertakings, ill health, disappointments, and no good to be hoped.
        • Cipher and circle: deceptive gains and indiscreet involvement excluding marriage.
        • Chimney and churchyard in winter: sickness, sorrow, poverty, and separation from friends.
        • Broken chandelier light: unfortunate speculation and sickness clouding a promising future.
      • Love, Courtship, and Marriage
        • Young woman in a cave: falling for a villain and losing true friends.
        • Cellar stored with wines: an offer of marriage from a speculator or gambler.
        • Chastising others: an ill-tempered partner in business or marriage.
        • Cheated at games: losing sweethearts through quarrels and misunderstandings.
        • Chrysanthemum bouquets: love offered but set aside for foolish ambition.
      • Work, Business, and Ambition
        • Catechism: lucrative position offered, but strictures make acceptance worrisome.
        • Chairman: elevation to a high position of trust; justice and kindness distinguish you.
        • Checks: paying out checks means depression and loss; receiving them means inheritance.
        • Churning: difficult tasks accomplished through diligence, bringing prosperity.
        • City council and city hall: clashes with institutions, lawsuits, and discouraging outlooks.
      • Spiritual and Higher States
        • Christ child worshiped: peaceful days of wealth, knowledge, joy, and contentment.
        • Gethsemane vision: sorrowing adversity and longings for absent loved ones.
        • Cathedral entered: elevation in life among the learned and wise.
        • Church in distance: disappointment in long-anticipated pleasures.
        • White chrysanthemums: loss, perplexity, crisis, then expanded spiritual senses.
    • Omens from Clairvoyance to Corn (C · III)
      • Fortune and Achievement
        • Climbing: reaching a hilltop or ladder top means overcoming obstacles and business success; failure to reach the top wrecks plans.
        • Clover: fragrant fields bring desired objects within reach; blasted fields bring harrowing regret.
        • College: dreaming of college foretells a long-sought position; returning to college earns distinction.
        • Corn: husking pied ears promises varied success and pleasure; seeing others gather corn shares their prosperity.
        • Coronation: attending one gains friendships with prominent people; participating wins surprising favor.
      • Threats and Failures
        • Clock: seeing a clock warns of danger from a foe; hearing it strike brings unpleasant news or a friend's death.
        • Cold: enemies are at work to destroy you, and your health is menaced.
        • Cloven foot: unusual ill luck threatens; avoid friendship with strange persons.
        • Cockade: foes will bring disastrous suits against you; beware of titles.
        • Copper: dreaming of copper denotes oppression from those above you in station.
      • Love and Marriage
        • Cock-crowing at dawn: a good omen; for the single, early marriage and a luxurious home.
        • Clergyman: a young woman marrying one in a dream will meet mental distress and adversity.
        • Coffee: drinking it signals friends' disapproval of marriage intentions; if married, frequent quarrels.
        • Silver coin: a silver coin from a lover means she will be jilted.
        • Combat: a young woman seeing combatants chooses between two devoted lovers.
      • Pleasure and Excess
        • Claironet: dreaming of one predicts frivolity beneath your dignity; a broken one brings a friend's displeasure.
        • Cocktail: drinking one means deceiving friends while enjoying fast company; a woman ignores moral rules.
        • Coca-Cola: a woman drinking it loses health and a wealthy marriage chance by abandoning herself to pleasure.
        • Comic songs: hearing them makes you neglect opportunity for pleasure; singing one ends in difficulties.
        • Confetti: you lose much by seeking enjoyment before doing your duty.
      • Sickness and Grief
        • Coffin: unlucky; farmers see blasted crops, business people debts, the young unhappy unions and death.
        • Consumption: dreaming you have it warns of exposing yourself to danger; remain with friends.
        • Cooling board: a young woman dreaming of one faces sickness and lover quarrels; trouble may resolve.
        • Cocoanut: dead coconut trees signal loss and sorrow; death of someone near may follow.
        • Combing: combing one's hair implies illness or death of a friend or relative.
      • Work and Counsel
        • Commerce: engaging in commerce means handling opportunities wisely; commercial failures portend real trouble.
        • Coal-mine: holding a share denotes safe investment; seeing miners warns of an evil seeking your downfall.
        • Coffee dealing: selling coffee means sure loss; buying it lets you retain credit.
        • Committee: waiting on you foretells unfruitful labor assigned to you.
        • Clairvoyance: seeing yourself in the future signals occupation change, then conflicts with designing people.
    • Harvest, Death, and Domestic Portents (C · IV)
      • Agrarian Bounty and Trade
        • Cornfields: green, heavy ears promise wealth and harmony; blasted ears mean disappointments.
        • Cotton: growing fields and rising prices signal prosperity; broken gins foretell ruin.
        • Cornmeal: seeing it fulfills ardent wishes; eating corn bread throws obstructions in your own path.
        • Counters: clean, busy counters ward off idleness; empty, soiled ones warn of uneasy engagements.
      • Body, Health, and Personal State
        • Corns: painful corns expose undermining enemies; clearing them brings an unknown inheritance.
        • Cough: your own cough indicates low health; hearing others cough points to unpleasant surroundings.
        • Corpulence: dreaming of fatness brings wealth, but gross self-images warn of moral dangers.
        • Crippled limbs: maimed figures portend famine, poverty, and dull trade.
      • Death, Grief, and Mourning
        • Corpse: sorrowful tidings, business gloom, family death, or rupture; money on the eyes means robbery.
        • Crape: hanging crape announces sudden death; a person in crape brings sorrow and lovers’ disputes.
        • Cremation: seeing bodies cremated means enemies weaken your influence; being cremated portends failure.
        • Crow and cymbal: crows cawing lead to bad property choices; cymbal sounds foretell death of an aged person.
      • Domestic Objects and Household Life
        • Corset and curtains: corsets reveal perplexing attentions; soiled or torn curtains mean disgraceful quarrels.
        • Crockery and counterpane: clean crockery shows thrift; a white counterpane promises pleasant work.
        • Cradle and couch: rocking your own baby predicts illness; reclining on a couch warns of false hopes.
        • Cushion and custard: silken cushions mark ease at others’ expense; custard can bring a future friend.
      • Deceit, Caution, and Public Affairs
        • Crocodile and crawfish: crocodile dreams warn of deception by friends; crawfish signal deceit in love.
        • Corner and counterfeit: corner whispers reveal traitor friends; counterfeit money brings trouble with worthless people.
        • Cross roads and country: cross roads show lost opportunity; fertile country promises wealth, dry land famine.
        • Custom-house and crowd: entering a custom-house gains a desired position; a well-dressed crowd suggests prosperity.
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    • Danger, Death, and Fortune's Signs (D · I)
      • Fortune and Misfortune
        • Dahlias and dandelions: fresh blooms herald good fortune; out-of-season blooms warn of evil.
        • Damson trees: richest visions loaded with fruit promise riches; eating the fruit forebodes grief.
        • Diamonds: dreamed of or gifted, they signal honor and wealthy marriage; losing them foretells disgrace.
        • Dishes: clean polished dishes bring success and marriage; broken or soiled ones cut fortune short.
        • Dates: fruit on the tree means prosperity; eating prepared dates brings want and distress.
      • Love, Family, and Marriage
        • Damask roses: blooming bushes mean a family wedding; lover's gift of roses can signal deception.
        • Dancing children: married dreamers gain loving children; young dreamers gain easy tasks and pleasures.
        • Daughter and daughter-in-law: pleasant dreams of them add harmony; displeasing ones bring vexation.
        • Dinner with a lover: harmonious dinner bodes well; otherwise it warns of a quarrel or rupture.
      • Enemies, Danger, and Moral Peril
        • Dagger: threats; wrenching it away means you can overcome enemies and misfortune.
        • Devil: a flattering seducer; being pursued means snares set by false friends, especially warns women.
        • Danger and darkness: perilous dreams portend honor if you escape, loss if you are wounded or overtaken.
        • Detective: if innocent, honor approaches; if guilty, reputation falls and friends turn away.
        • Dirt thrown on you: enemies will try to injure your character; soiling your clothes demands quarantine.
        • Disaster: public-conveyance perils warn of property loss; being rescued means trying situations passed.
      • Death and the Dead
        • Seeing the dead: usually a warning; father warns against contracts, mother against morbid ill will.
        • Conversing with a dead relative: their advice, if followed, can avert distress; it is your higher self speaking.
        • Death scenes: often show old thoughts being supplanted, not literal death; your state determines meaning.
        • Enemy dying: indicates you may overcome evil ways; loved one dying warns against improper thought or action.
      • Work, Business, and Daily Striving
        • Debt: bad omen for business and love; if you have enough to pay, affairs turn favorable.
        • Deeds and signing papers: portend lawsuits and bad omens; choose counsel carefully.
        • Digging: you will never want, but life will be uphill; finding glittering substance turns fortune.
        • Difficulty: temporary embarrassment; extricating yourself foretells prosperity.
        • Dictionary: relying on others' opinions weakens your own will in managing affairs.
    • Omens, Dogs, and Downfalls (D · II)
      • Waters of Fate and Health
        • Diving: clear water ends embarrassment; muddy water brings anxiety over affairs.
        • Drowning: loss unless rescued, then wealth and honor; rescuing others lifts friends and self.
        • Dropsy: brief illness then renewed vigor; seeing others afflicted brings good news from the absent.
        • Drouth: evil dream of wars, shipwrecks, family quarrels, sickness, and ruined affairs.
        • Ducks: wild ducks mean journeys; white farm ducks mean thrift and harvest; flying ducks promise a brighter future.
      • The Canine Oracle
        • Vicious, lean, or biting dogs: enemies, business failure, sick children, quarrelsome partner.
        • Fondling, fine, or white dogs: gain, friends, solid wealth, victory; for a woman, early marriage.
        • Barking, growling, or fighting dogs: depressing news, designing people, enemies, depression.
        • Mad or many-headed dog: fatal disease or insanity; too many business branches demand concentration.
        • Dog killing cat or snake, following or swimming: profit, good luck, stanch friends, easy fortune.
      • Beasts and Flying Messengers
        • Donkey travel and work: riding means foreign travel; driving means battling enemies; leading one makes you master by flattery.
        • Donkey braying: public insult if in your face; distant braying brings wealth through death.
        • Donkey misadventures: kicked signals illicit anxiety; thrown or dead means ill luck or excess.
        • Fortunate donkeys: white, bought, or inherited ones promise fortune, social heights, congenial marriage.
        • Doves, dragon, dolphin, dromedary: doves mean peace and fidelity; dragon warns against passions; dolphin means new government; dromedary brings beneficence.
      • Thresholds and Social Conduct
        • Door and door bell: entering slanders, except childhood home; bell brings tidings, summons, or sickbed.
        • Divorce: warning to cultivate home harmony; for women, lovers' infidelity may bring a single life.
        • Dressing and driving: dressing trouble means others' carelessness; driving invites criticism, being driven profits.
        • Drinking and drama: hilarious drinking discredits; heavy liquor brings disgrace, wine fortune; writing a drama brings debt.
        • Dominoes and duet: losing dominoes affronts, winning courts dissolute admirers; duet promises peaceful lovers.
      • Wealth, Work, and Enterprise
        • Dividend and docks: dividends mean successful speculation; docks warn of unpropitious journey and accident threats.
        • Doctor and dynamo: doctor socially means health, professionally illness; dynamo in repair means success, out of repair enemies.
        • Dowry and dun: losing a dowry brings penury; receiving one fulfills expectations; a dun warns against neglect.
        • Dunghill and draw-knife: dunghill brings unexpected profits; draw-knife portends unfulfilled hopes.
        • Dynamite: change and expanding affairs; being frightened reveals a secret enemy.
      • Warnings and Portents
        • Ditch: degradation and personal loss; jumping over it lets you live down suspicion.
        • Doomsday and dungeon: guard wealth from scheming friends; dungeon struggles yield to wise dealing.
        • Dust and dusk: dust means slight business injury or desertion; dusk portends sadness and dark trade.
        • Dying and dwarf: dying threatens from a former helper; well-formed dwarf means health, ugly dwarf distress.
        • Dye and drum: blue, red, or gold dyes bring prosperity; black or white sorrow; muffled drum signals absent friend's distress.
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    • Creatures and Natural Omens
      • Eagles soaring: lofty ambitions realized; killing or riding one portends overcoming enemies and gaining wealth.
      • Perched or young eagles: fame, high position, powerful associates, and a rich legacy.
      • Eels: fortune holds only if you keep your grip; dead eel means enemies fall and lovers marry.
      • Eggs: fresh nests and bird eggs bring wealth, legacies, and love affairs; rotten or spattered eggs bring loss.
      • Earthquake and eclipse: business failure and family turmoil; lunar eclipse portends disease or death.
      • Elderberries and evergreen: domestic bliss, travel resources, and boundless prosperity for all classes.
    • Body and Adornment
      • Ears and earrings: hidden watchers threaten your conversation; broken earrings signal low gossip against you.
      • Eyes: watchful enemies seek to injure you; brown eyes mean deceit, blue eyes weakness, gray eyes vanity.
      • Eyebrows and eyeglass: sinister obstacles ahead; wearing a glass brings disagreeable friendships and broken love affairs.
      • Elbows and ermine: arduous labor with small reward, but marriage chances; ermine means exaltation and purity unless soiled.
    • Wealth, Work, and Status
      • Education and employment: desire for knowledge elevates you; employment dreams imply depression, illness, and loss.
      • Elephant and elevator: riding an elephant brings solid wealth and authority; ascending elevator means swift rise, descending means crushing misfortune.
      • Estate and emerald: inheritance brings trouble with others; emeralds warn a lover he may be discarded for a wealthier suitor.
      • Emperor and empress: high honors followed by unpopular pride; imperial dreams bring no substantial good.
      • Embroidery and exchange: tact and ability admired; exchange denotes profitable dealings in all business.
    • Love and Social Bonds
      • Embrace and engagement: sorrowful embraces mean family dissension; broken engagement warns of hasty, unwise action.
      • Elopement: unfaithfulness and disappointment; married dreamers risk reputation unless they change their ways.
      • Envy and eloquence: unselfish deference wins warm friends; eloquent speech brings pleasant news, failure to impress brings disorder.
      • Entertainment and errands: music and dancing yield health, prosperity, and news of the absent; errands mean family harmony.
      • Epicure and epaulet: selfish companions surround distinction; military honors for men, but unwise attachments for women.
    • Danger and Deliverance
      • Escape and explosion: escape is favorable; explosions bring disapproval, unjust accusations, and untrustworthy friends.
      • Execution and embalming: execution warns of misfortune through others' carelessness; embalming foretells altered social position and poverty.
      • Entrails and embankment: entrails mean despair and dissolution; driving an embankment turns threats into advancement.
      • Enemies and epidemic: overcoming enemies brings prosperity; epidemic dreams portend mental prostration and contagion.
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    • Fortunes, Faces, and Fire Omens (F · I)
      • People, Fables, and Family
        • Fables: telling or reading them denotes pleasant tasks and a literary turn; religious fables deepen devotion.
        • Family: harmonious family dreams signify health and easy circumstances; sickness or contention forebodes gloom.
        • Father: a living father warns of a difficulty needing wise counsel; a dead father signals heavy business caution.
        • Father-in-law: seeing him well and cheerful foretells pleasant family relations; otherwise, contentions with relatives.
        • Faithless: dreams of faithless friends mean they hold you in worthy esteem; a lover's faithless sweetheart portends marriage.
        • Fates: dreaming of the Fates portends unnecessary disagreements and unhappiness.
      • Love, Face, and Contrary Signs
        • Face: bright faces favor you; ugly or frowning faces portend trouble, lovers' quarrels, or separation.
        • Farewell: bidding farewell brings unpleasant news of absent friends; a lover's farewell signals his indifference.
        • Fan: fanning yourself promises pleasing new acquaintances; losing an old fan means a friend's interest wanders.
        • Fawn: seeing a fawn denotes true friends and faithfulness in love; being fawned on warns of false friends.
        • Failure: a lover who fails in his suit sees a contrary dream — he needs more energy, not more love.
        • Falcon: prosperity stirs envy and malice; a young woman dreaming of a falcon faces a rival's slander.
      • Ventures, Fields, and Barriers
        • Farm: living on a farm is fortunate in all undertakings; buying one promises crops, profits, or safe voyages.
        • Fair: attending a fair denotes pleasant, profitable business and a congenial companion.
        • Field: green or ripe fields promise abundance; freshly plowed fields mean rise in wealth; stubble warns of dreary prospects.
        • Fence: climbing to the top crowns success; throwing the fence down shows enterprise overcoming stubborn barriers.
        • Fall: a frightening fall means struggle but eventual honor and wealth; injury in the fall foretells hardship and loss of friends.
        • Ferry: crossing calm, clear water brings luck in plans; muddy, swift water baffles highest wishes.
      • Fire and Its Omens
        • Fire: favorable if you are not burned — continued prosperity for voyagers and landsmen.
        • Home or store burning: seeing them burn promises a loving household, obedient children, and profitable business.
        • Conflagration: large fires bring sailors safe voyages, literary people advancement, business people unlimited success.
        • Fire-engine: seeing one brings worry under extraordinary circumstances, but good fortune follows; a broken one presages loss.
        • Fireman: a fireman signifies constancy of friends; a wounded fireman warns of danger to a close friend.
        • Fireworks: seeing fireworks indicates enjoyment and good health; to a young woman, entertainment and distant visits.
      • Health, Worry, and Bodily Signs
        • Fainting, fever, fatigue: these dreams signal family illness, worry over trifles, or business oppression.
        • Famine: generally bad — business loss and sickness; seeing enemies perish means success in competition.
        • Fears: feeling fear foretells unsuccessful engagements; for a young woman, disappointment in love.
        • Feet: seeing your own feet portends despair and submission; washing your feet lets others take advantage.
        • Fingers: soiled or scratched fingers mean trouble and suffering; clean white fingers promise requited love.
        • Firmament: a star-filled sky denotes superhuman efforts and enemies' snares before ambition is won.
    • Fish, Flight, Friends, and Fortune (F · II)
      • Water, Fish, and Floating
        • Clear-water fish: you will be favored by the rich and powerful; dead fish warn of wealth lost through calamity.
        • Fishing: wading and catching fish means wealth by your own enterprise; failed efforts make honors futile.
        • Fisherman and fishhooks: a fisherman heralds greater prosperity; hooks are opportunities for an honorable fortune.
        • Fish market, net, and pond: market brings competence; net small gains; empty pond portends deadly enemies.
        • Floating and floods: floating conquers overwhelming obstacles; muddy floods bring sickness, loss, and unsettled marriage.
      • Flying and Machines
        • Flying high: marital calamities; low flying warns sickness with recovery to follow.
        • Flying over muddy water: keep private affairs close, for enemies are watching to enthrall you.
        • Flying over green trees: temporary embarrassment, then a flood of prosperity; seeing the sun means useless worries.
        • White wings above green foliage: business advancement and success in love; black wings promise bitter disappointments.
        • Flying machine: a working one shows satisfactory progress; a failing one returns gloom for much planning.
      • Creatures, Pests, and Wild Omens
        • Fleas and flies: provoke anger, slander, and sickness; killing flies restores a woman's love.
        • Frogs: catching them warns neglected health; a bullfrog denotes marriage to a wealthy widower.
        • Fox: chasing it risks doubtful speculation; a sly fox in your yard means reputation assailed.
        • Fowl and foal: fowls bring temporary worry or illness; a foal denotes fortunate new undertakings.
        • Fly-trap: signals malicious design; a full trap shows small embarrassments ward off greater ones.
      • Flowers, Fruits, and Fields
        • Flowers blooming: bright-hued fresh flowers bring pleasure and gain; white blooms signify sadness.
        • Withered flowers: disappointment and gloom; flowers in barren soil bring grief, then prominence through energy.
        • Fruit ripening: prosperous future; green fruit signals hasty action and disappointed efforts.
        • Flax and flour: flax denotes prosperous enterprises; flour a frugal, happy life.
        • Fountains and frost: clear fountain sparkles with possessions; gloomy frost foretells exile ending in peace.
      • Friends, Lovers, and Personal Omens
        • Friend troubled or haggard: sickness or distress; a friend as an animal means enemies separate you from kin.
        • Friend as statue: high statue means advancement with old values; low statue ignores former friends.
        • Freckles and fortune-telling: freckles warn of rivals; fortune-telling demands caution in a vexed choice.
        • Forsaking and flight: forsaking home predicts troubled love; flight signifies disgrace and unpleasant news.
        • Shaking hands with a wrongdoer: differences with a close friend and alienation, with loss of character near.
      • Flags, Fortunes, and Calamities
        • National flag: victory in war, prosperity in peace; foreign flags rupture confidence.
        • Fleet moving rapidly: hasty business change; dullness gives way to commercial activity and war rumors.
        • Fort and fortress: defending a fort attacks your honor; capturing one beats your worst enemy.
        • Fits and flux: fits lose health and employment; flux threatens fatal illness in the family.
        • Funeral, furnace, and furs: funeral warns unhappy marriage; running furnace good luck; fine furs honor and riches.
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    • Garden to Gallows: Dream Omens (G · I)
      • Fortune and Prosperity
        • Garden in bloom: peace and comfort; vegetables warn of misery.
        • Game taken: fortunate undertakings; failed hunt means loss.
        • Geese and goats: fortune and harvest increase; dead geese mean loss.
        • Gems: happy fate in love and business.
        • Giant fleeing: prosperity and good health; a blocking giant means struggle.
      • Love, Courtship, and Jealousy
        • Garter: finding a lady's garter loses caste; losing one stirs jealousy.
        • Gloves: ragged gloves betray; finding a pair predicts marriage.
        • Gauze: uncertain fortune; lover can influence sweetheart for good.
        • Girls: bright girl domestic joys; pale girl invalid.
        • Young woman's gallows dream: marrying an unscrupulous man.
      • Warnings of Danger and Death
        • Gale and gloomy scenes: business losses and approaching unpleasantness.
        • Gallows: friend on gallows demands decision; being on them means false friends.
        • Gangrene: death of parent or near relative.
        • Ghosts: parent warns of danger; friend's ghost predicts disappointment.
        • Glass and mirrors: broken mirror death; mirror images reveal betrayal and double life.
      • Business, Work, and Enterprise
        • Gaol: confinement blocks work through envy; escape brings favorable business.
        • Gate: passing through warns of alarming tidings; locked gate means inability to overcome.
        • Gas lamps: progress; exploding lamps threaten distress.
        • Garbage: social scandal and unfavorable business; for females, desertion.
        • Glass-blower: business change appears better but ends in loss.
      • Character, Conduct, and Self-Deception
        • Garret: chasing theories while leaving realities to others.
        • Garlic: rise from penury; eating it means a sensible view of life.
        • Gas: harmful opinions cause injustice and remorse; lighting it finds a way out.
        • Glass house: flattery injures; young woman's reputation threatened.
        • Girdle: pressing girdle means designing people; jeweled girdles show wealth over honor.
      • Social Life, Family, and Amusements
        • Genealogical tree: family cares burden; missing branches mean ignoring needy friends.
        • Gift: receiving gifts brings luck; sending gifts brings displeasure.
        • Gaiter: pleasant amusements and rivalries.
        • Gambling-house: winning means low associations; losing undoes someone near.
        • Gig: unwelcome visitors and sickness interrupt a pleasant journey.
    • G-Dreams: Gold, Graves, and Warnings (G · II)
      • Divine and Spiritual Signs
        • Seeing God: foretells domination by a tyrannical Christian woman; no good accrues.
        • God speaking: warns of condemnation, business decline, failing health, perhaps early death.
        • Worshiping God: calls for repentance; keep the ten commandments after this dream.
        • Divine favor: a cautious prominent person advances you; God's spirit broadens dogmatic beliefs or brings chastisement.
        • God's prodigals: God speaks most to transgressors, restoring them through visions — Elijah, Jonah, David, Paul.
      • Prosperity and Wealth
        • Gold: handling or finding it means success and honors; losing it forfeits your grandest chance.
        • Gold mine and leaves: finding a vein brings uneasy honor; mining warns of scandal; leaves promise flattery.
        • Goldfish: healthy fish mean pleasant adventures and a wealthy marriage; sick or dead fish disappoint.
        • Grain, grapes, groceries: grain promises wealth; groceries signal ease; seeing grapes brings high position, eating them cares.
        • Grass and grindstone: clear grass brings fame and safe love; turning a grindstone earns honest competency.
      • Love, Marriage, and Reputation
        • Billy goat: being butted means enemies may seize secrets; a woman riding one earns disrepute.
        • Goat's milk: a woman drinking it marries for money and is not disappointed.
        • Gown: a lover seeing a sweetheart in nightgown will be superseded; others so clad bring unpleasant news.
        • Guitar: playing makes family harmony; broken strings disappoint love; music warns against seduction.
        • Guardian and gossip: kind guardians mean consideration; gossip brings humiliation or a pleasant surprise.
      • Grave, Illness, and Loss
        • Grave: a new grave means suffering for others' wrongs; your own grave warns enemies seek ruin.
        • Empty or walked-on grave: empty means disappointment and lost friends; walking predicts early death or bad marriage.
        • Gout and gun: gout brings a relative's silly conduct and small loss; gunfire means lost employment or dishonor.
        • Groans and gong: groans warn enemies undermine business; groaning with fear reverses to surprise; a gong vexes falsely.
        • Gravy, gravel, and gown: gravy portends failing health; gravel marks unfruitful schemes; nightgown dreams bring slight illness.
      • Enemies, Temptations, and Social Warnings
        • Goggles: disreputable companions wheedle your money away; a young woman risks her fortune.
        • Gooseberries: gathering means happiness after trouble; eating green ones leads to sensational mistakes and disappointment.
        • Grasshopper: grasshoppers on green vegetables threaten interests; on withered grass, illness and poor business.
        • Gutter and gymnast: a gutter means degradation; a gymnast brings misfortune in speculation or trade.
        • Gypsy: a fortune told warns of hasty marriage or jealousy; trading with a gypsy loses money in speculation.
      • Friends, Counsel, and Everyday Signs
        • Goblet: silver goblet water means unfavorable business; ancient goblets bring favors; giving water signals illicit pleasures.
        • Greek and grammar: reading Greek means your ideas will be accepted; studying grammar predicts a wise choice.
        • Gramophone and grandparents: a gramophone heralds a new comrade; grandparents' advice helps overcome barriers.
        • Greyhound and gulls: greyhound is fortunate, even a legacy; gulls mean peaceful dealings; dead gulls separate friends.
        • Grotto, golf, and grease: grotto means incomplete friendships; pleasant golf brings wishing, unpleasant humiliation; grease means travel with disagreeable strangers.
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    • Hair, Hands, and Everyday Omens (H · I)
      • Hair: Fate and Fortune
        • Beautiful hair combed: a woman loses advancement by neglecting mental application.
        • Hair falling out: fortune passes by; a woman must earn her own livelihood.
        • Snow-white hair: a pleasing, fortunate journey through life awaits.
        • Gray or falling lock: trouble and disappointment; sickness dims bright expectations.
        • Tangled hair: life burdensome, business falls off, marriage yoke troublesome.
      • Hands as Portents
        • Beautiful hands: great distinction and rapid rise; malformed hands bring disappointment and poverty.
        • Blood on hands: estrangement and unjust censure from family.
        • Hairy hands: intriguing against innocent people while alert enemies forestall your designs.
        • Tied hands: difficulties ahead; loosening them makes others submit to your dictates.
        • Washing hands: participation in some joyous festivity.
      • Animals and Weather Signs
        • Hare escaping: lose something valuable mysteriously; catching one wins a contest.
        • Hawk: cheating by intriguing persons; shooting it surmounts obstacles after struggles.
        • Hens: pleasant family reunions with added members.
        • Hail storm: poor success in undertakings; hail with sunshine promises cares then fortune.
        • Hemp seed: near approach of deep friendship; business opportunity for profit.
      • People and Places of Morality
        • Heaven: ascent ends in sadness and lost distinction; meeting Christ there brings reconciliation.
        • Hell: falling into temptation that nearly wrecks you financially and morally.
        • Harem: wasting best energies on low pleasures; woman inmate seeks unlawful pleasure.
        • Harlot company: ill-chosen pleasures, social trouble, and business depression.
        • Hearse: uncongenial home, unsatisfactory business, and death or sickness near.
      • Objects and Daily Business
        • Hammer: discouraging obstacles must be overcome before fortune firms.
        • Harvest: prosperity and pleasure; abundant yields advance all conditions.
        • Hat loss: business failures and broken engagements; new hat predicts advantageous change.
        • Handbills: distributing them signals contentions and lawsuits; printing brings unfavorable news.
        • Halter on horse: prosperous clean business; love matters shape themselves to suit you.
      • Love and Trust Warnings
        • Red hair on sweetheart: denounced by the woman you love for unfaithfulness.
        • Handkerchiefs: flirtations; lost one broken engagement; white ones resist evil flattery.
        • Hate: hating another risks inadvertent injury; being unjustly hated brings sincere friends.
        • Heart pain: trouble in business from your own mistake if uncorrected.
        • Harp: trusting nature needs caution in confidence and love; broken harp means broken troth.
    • Omens of Fortune and Domestic Peril (H · II)
      • Livestock and Creatures
        • Hogs: fat hogs signal brisk business; lean ones bring vexation and trouble.
        • Horse: white horse brings prosperity and congenial friends; black horse means success but deception.
        • Wounded or dead horse: foretells troubles of friends or disappointments of various kinds.
        • Hounds: hunting hounds promise delights; a woman followed by hounds gains admirers but no real love.
        • Hyena: ill luck, uncongenial companions, and quarrels among lovers.
        • Hornet: disruption to friendship and loss of money; stings bring envious women's attacks.
      • Home and Family
        • Old home: visiting it brings good news; seeing it dilapidated warns of a relative's sickness or death.
        • House: building one means wise changes; owning an elegant house foretells better fortune.
        • Husband: seeing him gay and handsome promises happiness; pale or sick warns of illness and mistreatment.
        • Hut: sleeping in one indicates ill health and dissatisfaction; a hut in green pasture means prosperity with fluctuating joy.
        • Housekeeper: being one ennobles labor; employing one brings comparative comfort.
      • Fortune, Work, and Ambition
        • Hills: reaching the top brings good; falling back means envy and opposition.
        • High tide: favorable progression in your affairs.
        • Hoe: using one frees you from poverty; being struck at threatens enemies.
        • Hops: thrift, energy, and mastery of business; favorable to all classes.
        • Horseshoe: whole one advances business; broken one portrays ill fortune and sickness.
      • Social Reputation and Betrayal
        • Hidden things: hiding objects denotes embarrassment; finding them brings unexpected pleasures.
        • Hieroglyphs: wavering judgment may cause distress; reading them foretells overcoming evil.
        • Hissing: being hissed warns of losing a friend; hissing others means displeasure with new acquaintances.
        • Homicide: committing it brings anguish and humiliation through others' indifference.
        • Hypocrite: being deceived turns you over to enemies; being one makes you false to friends.
      • Love, Desire, and Pleasure
        • Honey: seeing or eating honey foretells wealth, love, and swift marriage for lovers.
        • Honeysuckle: contentment and a singularly happy marriage.
        • Hugging: disappointment in love and business; women who hug men risk doubtful advances.
        • Hips: admired hips bring upbraiding; narrow hips in a woman omens sickness.
        • Hyacinth: gathering hyacinths signals a painful separation that ultimately benefits you.
      • Spiritual and Dire Warnings
        • Holy Communion: partaking warns you resign independence for frivolous desire; refusal with worthiness foretells a doubtful position gained.
        • Hymns: hearing hymns sung denotes contentment at home and average business prospects.
        • Hurricane: hearing its roar warns of torture and suspense striving against ruin.
        • Hunger: unfortunate omen; home dissatisfaction, and unhappy marriage for lovers.
  • I
    • Nature and Elemental Omens
      • Ice: distress, envious enemies, and hidden shame for a young woman.
      • Ice cream: happy success in undertakings; sour or melted cream warns of spoiled pleasures.
      • Icicles: gloom and ill health; falling icicles mean trouble will soon vanish.
      • Inundation: dark flood waters bring calamity; clear flood waters bring profit after struggle.
    • Personal Conduct and Inner State
      • Idleness: failure of designs; idle young woman risks bad habits and a shiftless husband.
      • Industriousness: active work brings success and advancement, especially for lovers.
      • Intemperance: abuse of intellect or passions brings disease, loss, and lost esteem.
      • Insanity: disastrous results to new work or ill health; care for health after dreaming.
      • Idols: worshiping them slows progress; breaking them shows self-mastery and rise to honor.
    • Love, Relationships, and Social Life
      • Infants: pleasant surprises; a young woman's infant dream warns of accusations.
      • Indifference: brief pleasant company; sweetheart's indifference signals questionable affection, her own unfaithfulness.
      • Intermarriage: quarrels and contentions precipitating trouble and loss.
      • Invitations: unpleasant events or sad news; a young woman's party invitation brings marred pleasure.
    • Wealth, Work, and Enterprise
      • Income: inheritance or gained income brings success; losing it predicts disappointments.
      • Iron: harsh omen; weight means losses, manufacturing unjust gain, rusty iron poverty.
      • Implements: unsatisfactory means; broken implements threaten failure or illness.
      • Ivory: favorable fortune; carrying huge pieces brings financial success.
      • Inventor: achieving unique work adds honor; inventing aspires to fortune successfully.
    • Threats, Rivalry, and Deceit
      • Ink: slander, jealousy, and low associations; red ink means serious trouble.
      • Imitation: deception by others; a young woman will be imposed upon.
      • Inquisition: endless trouble; inability to defend against malicious slander.
      • Illumination: weird lights in heavens predict distress, family trouble, national upheavals.
    • Health, Adversity, and Omens of Misfortune
      • Illness: unforeseen events cause despair by missing anticipated pleasures.
      • Infirmities: misfortune in love and business; sickness may follow.
      • Intestines: grave calamity, loss of a friend, or censure from former friends.
      • Injury: an unfortunate occurrence will soon grieve and vex you.
      • Itch: unpleasant avocations; dreaming you have it means harsh usage and dissolute company.
  • J
    • People and Social Omens
      • Jackdaw: ill health and quarrels; catching one outwits enemies; killing one gains disputed property.
      • Jay-bird: pleasant visits and gossip; catching one means pleasant but unfruitful tasks; dead one brings domestic unhappiness.
      • Jailer: treachery embarrasses interests; evil women enthrall; mob breaking jail warns extortion.
      • Janitor: bad management and disobedient children; finding one brings pleasant associations with strangers.
      • Jew: company with a Jew signals ambition for wealth; transactions with a Jew prosper legally.
      • Jockey: unexpected gift; woman dreaming of jockey lover marries below station; thrown horse means strangers seek aid.
    • Food, Objects, and Possessions
      • Jam and Jelly: pure jam and jelly mean pleasant surprises; making them promises a happy home and reunions.
      • Jars and Jugs: full vessels signify success and friends; empty ones impoverishment; broken ones sickness.
      • Jewels: jewels bring pleasure and rank; broken or cankered jewelry warns disappointment and false friends.
      • Jasper: happy omen of success and love; losing it signals a lover's disagreement.
      • Jew's-harp: slight improvement in affairs; playing one means falling in love with a stranger.
      • Jumping-jack: idleness and trivial pastimes crowd out serious and sustaining plans.
    • Months, Nature, and Health
      • January, June, July: January unloved companions; June unusual gains; July gloom rebounds to good fortune.
      • Juniper: happiness and wealth from sorrow; eating berries brings trouble; sick persons recover.
      • Jaundice: prosperity after temporary embarrassment; seeing others jaundiced warns unpleasant companions.
      • Jaws: misshapen jaws signify friend disagreements; being in a beast's jaws means enemies harm your affairs.
      • Jessamine: approaching exquisite but fleeting pleasure.
    • Travel, Work, and Amusements
      • Journey: profit or disappointment follows the journey's success; friends departing sad imply loss.
      • Journeyman: losing money by useless travels; for a woman, pleasant unexpected trips.
      • Jumping: clearing objects brings success; falling back renders life intolerable; jumping down warns reckless speculation.
      • Jig: cheerful occupations; sweetheart dancing means merry disposition; ballet girls warn undignified amusements.
      • Jubilee: many pleasant enterprises; for a young woman, matrimony; religious jubilee means comfortable surroundings.
      • Jester: ignoring important things in looking after silly affairs.
    • Emotions, Legal, and Judgment
      • Jealousy: jealousy of wife brings enemies' influence; woman jealous of husband finds shocking incidents.
      • Jolly and Joy: merriment yields satisfying results; joy over events denotes harmony; a rift adds worry.
      • Jail and Judge: jail warns granting unworthy privileges; judge settles disputes legally, verdict marks success or failure.
      • Jury and Justice: jury acquittal means business success; condemnation means enemies; justice disputes warn of false statements.
      • Judgment Day: resigned and hopeful appearance means well-planned work succeeds; guilty verdict foreshadows scandal.
      • Javelin: defending with a javelin proves innocence after dishonesty claims; being pierced lets enemies trouble you.
  • K
    • Sudden Changes and Fortune
      • Kaleidoscope: swift changes portend little that is favorable.
      • Keg: struggle to throw off oppression; broken kegs signal separation.
      • Kettle: laborious work ahead; boiling water means struggles soon end.
      • Key: unexpected changes; lost keys bring unpleasant adventures, found keys bring peace.
      • Kite: showy wealth without soundness; a fallen kite foretells disappointment and failure.
    • Animal Omens
      • Kangaroo: you outwit a wily enemy; an attack puts reputation in jeopardy.
      • Katydids: misfortune and unusual dependence; for a woman, a quarrelsome lover.
      • Kid: careless morals and grief brought to a loving heart.
      • Kitten: artful deception or small vexations; killing kittens overcomes worries.
    • Body, Violence, and Danger
      • Kidneys: serious illness or marital trouble; malfunction invites scandal.
      • Knee: an unfortunate omen; stiff and painful knees warn of calamity.
      • Killing: killing a defenseless man brings sorrow; killing in defense or a beast brings victory.
      • Knife: separation, quarrels, and losses; broken knives mean defeat.
      • Knife grinder: unwarrantable liberties taken with your possessions; for women, unhappy unions.
    • Love, Kisses, and Marriage
      • Kissing kin: mother brings success; siblings bring pleasure and good.
      • Kissing sweetheart: darkness means danger, light means honorable intentions.
      • Kissing enemy: move toward reconciliation with an angry friend.
      • Rival kissing sweetheart: danger of losing her esteem.
      • Knitting: quiet home for women; thrift and rising prospects for men.
    • Royalty, Spirit, and Tidings
      • King: ambition is your master; being crowned means rising above peers.
      • Krishna: greatest joy in occult knowledge; cultivate a philosophical bearing.
      • Knocker: forced to ask aid and counsel of others.
      • Knocking: grave tidings coming; being awakened makes the news more serious.
    • Privacy, Work, and Worry
      • Keyhole: spying damages through broken confidence; being spied on bares private matters.
      • Kitchen: depressing emergencies; an orderly kitchen promises interesting fortunes.
      • Knapsack: pleasure away from friends; old pack foretells poverty for women.
      • Knots: worry over trifles; tying a knot denotes an independent nature.
  • L
    • Omens of Labor, Love, and Loss (L · I)
      • Work, Enterprise, and Fortune
        • Labor: seeing men toiling means profitable work and healthy prospects; laboring yourself favors new enterprises.
        • Laboratory: great energies wasted on unfruitful schemes; practical business would succeed better.
        • Ladder: ascending brings prosperity and happiness; falling or a broken ladder signals failure and despondency.
        • Ledger: keeping accounts brings perplexities; wrong entries predict disputes and slight loss.
        • Learning: acquiring knowledge advances literary standing; entering halls of learning raises you from obscurity.
        • Laurel: success, fame, and gain in love; enterprises become laden with profit.
      • Nature and the Land
        • Land: fertile land omens good; sterile and rocky ground foretells failure and despondency.
        • Lake: clear, calm water brings happiness and wealth; muddy lakes with bleak rocks end business and affection unhappily.
        • Lagoon: doubt and confusion come from misapplied intelligence.
        • Lawns: well-kept grass promises joy and prosperity; dead, marshy lawns signal quarrels and separation.
        • Leaves: green leaves mean business improvement and happy marriage; withered leaves bring false hopes and despondency.
      • Creatures and Animals
        • Lamb: frolicking lambs portend chaste friendships and crops; dead or bloodied ones signify sadness and betrayal of innocents.
        • Lark: larks flying and singing bring high aims and happy changes; wounded or dead larks foreshadow sadness or death.
        • Lap-dog: a healthy lap-dog means friends will help in a dilemma; a thin one portends distressing events.
        • Leeches: leeches foretell enemies overrunning your interests; bites warn of danger in unexpected places.
      • Home, Love, and Social Life
        • Lace: sweetheart wearing lace ensures fidelity and rising position; making lace wins a handsome, wealthy husband.
        • Ladle: a clean ladle promises a fortunate companion and happy children; broken or dirty means grievous loss.
        • Lap: sitting on a lap gives pleasant security; a serpent or cat in a woman's lap threatens humiliation or seduction.
        • Laundry: laundering clothes means struggles ending in victory; unsatisfactory results spoil fortune's pleasure.
        • Laughing: cheerful laughter brings success; mocking laughter or laughing at others' hurts brings illness and disappointment.
        • Lemons: lemons on the tree reveal jealousy; eating them brings humiliation; shriveled ones portend divorce or separation.
      • Peril, Sickness, and Adversity
        • Lamp: clear-burning lamps portend rise and domestic bliss; broken or exploded lamps mean death or enemies' damage.
        • Lamp-post: a stranger proves a staunch friend in need; falling against one warns of deception or adversity.
        • Lance: a lance foretells formidable enemies; breaking one overcomes seeming impossibilities.
        • Laudanum: taking it signals weak will and undue influence; preventing others from taking it brings joy.
        • Legs: misshapen or wounded legs bring unprofitable occupations and losses; clean, shapely legs promise a happy future.
        • Leaking: a leak in anything is a sign of loss and vexations.
    • Beasts, Letters, Light, and Fortune (L · II)
      • Beasts as Enemies and Rivals
        • Leopard attack: future promises fair, but misplaced confidence makes success difficult.
        • Killing or caging leopards: victory in affairs; enemies surround but cannot injure you.
        • Lion subdued: victory over opposition; overpowered, you fall to enemies.
        • Lynx and lizard: hidden rivals undermine you; killing them restores fortune and overcomes rivals.
        • Lice: waking worry and offensive ailments; catching them breeds sickness and morbidity.
      • Letters and Carriers
        • Registered letter: money matters disrupt long-established relations; may offer a morally doubtful competency.
        • Anonymous letter: injury from an unsuspected source; writing one reveals jealousy of a superior rival.
        • Colored stationery: green paper signals slights; blue ink means constancy; red implies suspicion and jealousy.
        • Black-bordered letter: distress and death of a relative; black paper with white ink brings gloom with little relief.
        • Letter-carrier: mail brings unwelcome news; his whistle signals an unexpected visitor; passing by means disappointment.
      • Light, Lightning, and Storms
        • Light: success attends you; dim light means partial success; weird light or going out means undertaking fails.
        • Lighthouse: through a storm difficulties disperse into prosperity; from a calm sea, calm joys and congenial friends.
        • Lightning: brief happiness; livid bolts from black clouds bring sorrow and difficulties close on fortune.
        • Lightning direction: south hides fortune, southwest brings luck, west brightens prospects, north needs obstacles removed, east wins favors.
        • Lightning-rod: threatened destruction to cherished work; installing one warns against new enterprise; taking it down advances interests.
      • Health, Affliction, and the Body
        • Leprosy: infection foretells sickness, money loss, and displeasure; seeing others afflicted turns love to indifference.
        • Limp: small worry detracts from enjoyment; seeing others limp means offense at a friend's conduct.
        • Liver and lips: disordered liver brings a querulous mate; thick lips signal ill temper, thin lips mastery, sore lips privation.
        • Lockjaw: betrayal of confidence; seeing others afflicted saddles you with unpleasant tasks.
        • Lily and limes: lilies warn of illness and death; eating limes portends continued sickness and adverse straits.
      • Fortune, Risk, and Material Life
        • Loaves and liquor: loaves indicate frugality; multiplying loaves great success; buying liquor means selfish usurpation.
        • Lobster: seeing lobsters brings riches; eating them contaminates through pleasure seekers.
        • Locomotive: rapid rise in fortune and foreign travel; disabled or demolished means vexation and loss.
        • Lottery: engaging in drawing warns of worthless enterprise; losing makes you a victim of designing persons.
        • Loadstone and lime-kiln: loadstone creates material opportunity; lime-kiln forbodes no favor for speculation.
      • Love, Society, and Conduct
        • Love: loving any object brings satisfaction; unreciprocated love creates conflict over changing life or marrying.
        • Lovely and lucky: lovely things bring favor; being lucky fulfills wishes and renews prosperity.
        • Lying: to escape punishment dishonors the innocent; to protect a friend draws criticism but brings prominence.
        • Lute and lyre: lute brings joyful news from absent friends; lyre foretells chaste pleasures and smooth business.
        • Liquor and luxury: liquor attracts shallow convivial friends; luxury brings wealth but dissipation reduces income.
  • M
    • Omens of Travel, Labor, and Warning (M · I)
      • Journeys and New Prospects
        • Macadamized road: pleasant journeys with benefit; for young people, noble aspirations.
        • Map: business change contemplated; disappointing things but profit follow; ambition lifts young woman.
        • Mariner and masts: long voyages, new friends, possessions; wrecked masts signal sudden changes.
        • Mile-post: doubt and fears in business or love; fallen post warns accidents threaten.
        • Mansion: distant view foretells advancement; being inside indicates wealthy possessions.
      • Animals as Omens
        • Mad dog: enemies attack; killing it overcomes adverse opinions and brings financial prosperity.
        • Mare: success and congenial companions in pasture; barren pasture means poverty but warm friends.
        • Magpie: dissatisfaction and quarrels; guard conduct and speech after dream.
        • Mice: domestic troubles and insincere friends; killing mice conquers enemies.
        • Marmot / May bugs: sly enemies approach as fair women; ill-tempered companion where congenial expected.
      • People and Station
        • Man: handsome, well-formed man means enjoyment and riches; ugly man brings disappointments.
        • Master: having a master shows incompetency to command; being master brings high position and wealth.
        • Mason: mason at work foretells rise in circumstances; masonic regalia signals protecting others.
        • Magistrate: harassment with lawsuit threats and business losses.
      • Commerce, Labor, and Money
        • Machinery: new project brings anxiety then good; old machinery warns enemies overcome fortune.
        • Market: thrift and activity; empty market means depression; decayed goods mean business losses.
        • Manure: favorable omen; farmers especially feel rise in fortune.
        • Manufactory: unusual activity in business circles.
        • Memorandum: making one means unprofitable business; finding one assumes new duties pleasing others.
      • Health, Sickness, and Emotion
        • Madness: trouble ahead, sickness and property loss; young woman faces disappointment in marriage and wealth.
        • Measles / medicine: worry and care; disgusting medicine means protracted illness or deep sorrow.
        • Melancholy: disappointment in favorable undertakings; seeing others melancholy brings interruptions, separation for lovers.
        • Mattress: new duties and responsibilities; new mattress signifies contentment.
      • Warnings, Deception, and Morals
        • Mask: wearing one means temporary trouble and misinterpreted conduct; seeing others masked warns of falsehood.
        • Magnet / magnifying-glass: magnet lures from honor; magnifying-glass reveals unsatisfactory work.
        • Magic: pleasant surprises and profitable changes; true magic is study of higher truths, not sorcery.
        • Marriage: wedding colors determine joy or mourning; unhappy bride foretells disappointments and enemies.
        • Manslaughter / meshes: fear of scandal; entangled in meshes means enemies oppress seeming prosperity.
    • Milk, Money, and Life's Perils (M · II)
      • Food, Drink, and Nourishment
        • Milk: giving it away denotes excessive benevolence; spilling it brings small losses and temporary sorrow.
        • Milk conditions: impure milk torments with petty troubles; sour milk signals distress over friends' woes.
        • Hot milk: struggle, then final winning of riches and desires.
        • Molasses: pleasant hospitality and agreeable surprises; eating it brings discouragement in love.
        • Mushroom: unhealthy desires and unwise haste in amassing wealth; eating them means humiliation.
      • Money, Work, and Enterprise
        • Mill: thrift and fortunate undertakings; a dilapidated mill heralds sickness and ill fortune.
        • Mill-dam: clear water foretells pleasant enterprises; muddy water brings losses; dry dam shrinks business.
        • Mine: being in a mine means failure in affairs; owning one promises future wealth.
        • Mining: an enemy seeks your ruin through past immoralities; hunting for mines engages worthless pursuits.
        • Money: finding it gives small worries but happiness; paying it out portends misfortune; saving augurs wealth and comfort.
      • People, Family, and Counsel
        • Mother: seeing her at home signifies pleasing results; hearing her cry omens illness or affliction.
        • Mother-in-law: reconciliations after disagreement; disputes with her attract quarrelsome annoyances.
        • Minister: unfortunate changes and unpleasant journeys; hearing him exhort means a designing person influences you to evil.
        • Monk: family dissensions and journeys; being a monk denotes loss and illness.
        • Miser: selfishness destroys true happiness; being miserly makes you obnoxious to others.
      • Love, Marriage, and Pleasure
        • Moon: normal moon prognosticates success in love and business; weird moon brings unpropitious love and domestic infelicity.
        • New moon: increase in wealth and congenial marriage partners; blood-red moon means war and separation from a lover.
        • Minuet: seeing it danced promises pleasant existence; dancing it yourself brings good fortune and domestic joys.
        • Mistletoe: happiness and rejoicing; to the young, many pleasant pastimes.
        • Music: harmonious music omens pleasure and prosperity; broken instruments mar anticipated pleasures.
      • Journeys, Crossings, and Changes
        • Mountain: pleasant verdant ascent brings swift wealth and prominence; rugged failed climb predicts reverses.
        • Mire: going through mire temporarily checks dearest wishes and plans due to unusual changes.
        • Morning: clear dawn prognosticates fortune and pleasure; cloudy morning portends weighty affairs.
        • Mourning: wearing mourning omens ill luck; lovers face misunderstanding and probable separation.
        • Mystery: bewilderment warns of strangers' troubles and neglected duties; studying creation's mysteries lifts you to higher research.
      • Enemies, Deceit, and Dark Omens
        • Murder: seeing murder foretells sorrow from others' misdeeds; committing it leaves a stain on your name.
        • Monster: pursuit by a monster means sorrow; slaying it lets you rise to eminent positions.
        • Mirror: seeing yourself in one brings discouragement and sickness; a broken mirror foretells violent death of a relative.
        • Small enemies: monkey signifies deceitful flatterers; mouse warns of an artful foe; mosquitoes are secret attackers.
        • Mud: walking in mud means lost confidence in friendships; mud on clothing assails your reputation.
  • N
    • Body, Health, and Reputation
      • Nudity: dreaming of nakedness foretells scandal and unwise engagements; hiding it signals desire to abandon illicit pleasures.
      • Nude swimming: clear water promises illicit loves with sickness or loss; muddy water brings jealous gossip.
      • Face and neck: your nose shows force of character; small nose means failure; admiring a neck breaks domestic ties.
      • Ailments and senses: nearsightedness foretells embarrassing failure; numbness warns of illness; a bleeding nose is disaster.
    • Work, Money, and Enterprise
      • Tools and trade: nails mean toil with small pay; needles warn of affliction; nets indicate unscrupulous dealings.
      • Business omens: a strong navy brings victory; numbers unsettle business; a notary predicts lawsuits; need warns of unwise speculation.
      • Prosperity signs: new year promises connubial prosperity; nutmegs and nuts bring success and pleasant journeys.
      • News and media: good news means fortune, bad news contrary; printing newspapers brings travel and honor.
    • Love, Family, and Home
      • Marriage omens: nuptials for a woman bring distinction and harmony; a necklace omens a loving husband.
      • Kin and offspring: a handsome nephew means competency; a niece portends trials; nursing a baby brings honor and trust.
      • Home and neighbors: neighbor dreams warn of gossip and quarrels; nests signal domestic prosperity and obedient children.
      • Social harmony: nightingale songs promise pleasing existence; silent nightingales predict slight misunderstandings.
    • Omens, Warnings, and Adversity
      • Darkness: night portends business oppression; vanishing night brightens affairs.
      • Dread: nightmare warns of wrangling and failure; for a young woman, disappointment and health caution.
      • Harm: strange noise presages bad news; nettle stings bring discontent; necromancer threatens evil influence.
      • Neglect: November augurs indifferent success; ninepins warn of wasted energy and unwise companions.
    • People, Temptation, and Servants
      • Nobility: associating with nobility shows vanity over mind; a young woman chooses a lover by appearance.
      • Nuns: for men, nuns warn that material joys disturb spirituality; for women, widowhood or separation.
      • Nurses and servants: nurse in home foretells illness; departure omens health; negro dreams warn of servant deception.
      • Nymphs and indulgence: clear-water nymphs promise passion; impersonating one reveals selfish charms; napkins predict entertainment; noodles reveal abnormal appetites.
  • O
    • Nature and Creatures
      • Oak: forests signify prosperity; acorn-laden trees mean increase and promotion; blasted oaks warn of shocking surprises.
      • Ocean: calm seas are propitious for sailors, business, and lovers; stormy waves foretell disaster and household quarrels.
      • Owl: its muffled call warns that death creeps near; a dead owl means narrow escape from illness.
      • Ox: well-fed oxen in green pastures bring fortune and high standing; lean oxen dwindle wealth and friendship.
      • Otter: sporting in limpid streams brings waking happiness, good fortune, and ideal early marriage.
      • Orang-utang: someone falsely uses your influence for selfish schemes; for a young woman, an unfaithful lover.
    • Food and Sustenance
      • Oatmeal and oats: eating them brings earned fortune and domestic harmony; decayed oats replace bright hopes with sorrow.
      • Onions: quantities signal envy from success; eating them overcomes opposition; cutting them lets rivals defeat you.
      • Oranges: healthy trees promise health and prosperity; eating oranges brings sickness, dissatisfaction, or lost love.
      • Olives: gathering with friends favors business and surprises; breaking a bottle disappoints on pleasure's eve.
      • Oysters and shells: eating oysters foretells low pleasures and moral loss; seeing them promises easy circumstances, but shells mean frustration over another's fortune.
    • People, Status, and Society
      • Obedience: obeying another foretells a pleasant but uneventful time; commanding obedience earns fortune and esteem.
      • Office: holding office rewards boldness with success; being turned out signifies loss of valuables.
      • Orator: eloquence persuades you to aid unworthy people; a young woman falling for an orator is swayed by show.
      • Offense: being offended reveals faults in your conduct; giving offense predicts struggles before reaching aims.
      • Orphan: condoling with orphans means sacrificing enjoyment; related orphans bring estranging duties.
    • Places and Structures
      • Observatory: viewing heavens from it signals swift elevation; clouded heavens mean your highest aims fail.
      • Orchard: blossoming orchards with a sweetheart consummate courtship; blighted orchards mean misery amid wealth.
      • Obelisk: a cold, stately obelisk portends melancholy tidings; lovers at its base face fatal disagreements.
      • Opera and omnibus: opera brings congenial entertainment; riding an omnibus warns of misunderstandings and unwise promises.
    • Objects, Clothing, and Tools
      • Oar: handling oars sacrifices your pleasure for others; a broken oar interrupts anticipated pleasure.
      • Overcoat: borrowing one brings mistakes by strangers; wearing a handsome new one realizes your wishes.
      • Ornaments: wearing them confers flattering honor; losing one means losing a lover or situation.
      • Ouija board: fluent writing brings fortunate results; failure to work warns of pleasure substituted for business.
      • Oil, ointment, and oilcloth: anointing with oil makes you the moving power; ointment brings beneficial friendships; oilcloth warns of treachery.
    • Portents and Warnings
      • Oath: taking an oath in dreams prepares you for dissension and altercations on waking.
      • One-eyed creatures: overwhelming warning of secret intrigue against your fortune and happiness.
      • Opium: strangers obstruct your fortune by sly and seductive means.
      • Opulence: fairy-like luxury in a young woman's dream warns of later shame and poverty.
      • Ostrich: secretly amassing wealth can mean degrading intrigues; catching one enables travel and knowledge.
  • P
    • Love, Fortune, and Warning (P · I)
      • Love, Courtship, and Fidelity
        • Pacify: soothing suffering wins love; a lover calming jealousy risks misplaced affection.
        • Page: hasty union with one unsuited; acting as page means a foolish escapade.
        • Palmistry: suspicion from others, many opposite-sex friends, and condemnation from her own sex.
        • Parasol: flirtations and illicit enjoyments; a lover may discover her inclinations.
        • Pearls: lover's pearls promise fidelity and festivity; losing them brings sorrow and misunderstanding.
      • Family, Friends, and Social Life
        • Parents: cheerful parents bring harmony or marriage; dead or sad parents warn trouble.
        • Paradise: loyal friends, bright hopes for voyagers, obedient children, and recovery.
        • Parting: parting with friends brings small daily vexations; parting with enemies signals success.
        • Parrot: chattering parrots mean idle gossip; teaching one portends private trouble.
        • Pantomime: friends deceive you; taking part gives offense and unsatisfactory affairs.
      • Business, Money, and Enterprise
        • Packet: incoming packet promises recreation; outgoing packet means small losses.
        • Pail: full milk pails promise fair prospects; empty pails warn famine.
        • Pancake: eating pancakes signals excellent success; cooking them denotes thrift.
        • Partnership: forming one means fluctuating money; dissolving an unpleasant one grants desires.
        • Partridge: seeing, ensnaring, or eating them promises property and deserved honors.
      • Warnings, Loss, and Adversity
        • Pain: own pain means useless regrets; others' pain warns of life mistakes.
        • Pall and pall-bearer: sorrow, mourning, and attacks on integrity.
        • Palsy and paralysis: unstable contracts, financial reverses, cooling affections.
        • Panther: unless killed, canceled contracts, broken promises, social discord.
        • Pawn-shop and paper: financial disappointments, lawsuits, and neglected trust.
      • Ambition, Conduct, and Self-Knowledge
        • Palace: grandeur foretells brighter prospects; humble dreamers should resist deceitful ambition.
        • Palisade: altering plans to please strangers impairs your interests.
        • Pardon: seeking pardon for an uncommitted offense ends in advancement.
        • Path: rough narrow path means adversity; flowered path promises freedom from oppressive loves.
        • Patent medicine: desperate measures may succeed; making medicines raises you from obscurity.
      • Nature, Health, and Abundance
        • Palm tree: hopeful situations, happy home; withered palms bring sorrow.
        • Peaches: eating them means sick children; gathering ripe ones wins a wealthy husband.
        • Peacock: brilliant pleasures conceal sorrow and failure.
        • Pears: eating them portends poor success; golden fruit promises brighter fortune.
        • Peas: eating them augurs robust health and wealth; seeing them grow means fortunate enterprises.
    • Dreams of Objects and Omens (P · II)
      • Luck in Work and Wealth
        • Peas: planting them denotes grounded hopes; gathering them signifies plans culminating in good and enjoyed labors.
        • Pecans: eating a sound nut brings a dearest plan to full fruition; decayed ones follow failure in love or business.
        • Penny: counting pennies shows economical, business-like habits; finding them advances prospects.
        • Pension: drawing one means friends aid your labors; failing the application loses an undertaking and friendships.
        • Pine Tree: unvarying success in any undertaking; a dead pine for a woman means bereavement and cares.
        • Plow: seeing persons plowing denotes activity and advancement in knowledge and fortune.
      • Love, Marriage, and Rivalry
        • Pebbles: a pebble-strewn walk portends many rivals; pebbles themselves reveal selfishness.
        • Pencil: a young woman writing with one is fortunate in marriage, unless she rubs out words.
        • Petticoat: clean silken petticoats promise a doting husband; a falling petticoat signals trouble keeping a lover.
        • Pigeons: cooing pigeons herald domestic peace and children; for a young woman, an early comfortable union.
        • Pheasant: eating one makes a wife's jealousy cut off friendly intercourse; shooting one fails to sacrifice for friends.
        • Physician: a young woman dreaming of a physician sacrifices her beauty to frivolous pastimes.
      • Domestic Life and Simple Pleasures
        • Piano: sweet harmony from a piano signals success and health; discordant music brings exasperating matters.
        • Picnic: attending a picnic foreshadows success and real enjoyment; storms displace assured profit and pleasure.
        • Peppermint: pleasant entertainments and interesting affairs; young women should avoid seductive pleasures.
        • Perfume: inhaling it augurs happy incidents; spilling or breaking the bottle ends cherished wishes.
        • Pillow: a pillow denotes luxury and comfort; making one promises a pleasant future.
        • Plate: plates for a woman mean economy and a worthy husband; married, she keeps his love by wise householding.
      • Reputation, Deception, and Enemies
        • Pictures: photographs and pictures prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.
        • Pirate: pirates denote evil designs of false friends; dreaming you are one sinks you below former equals.
        • Pickpocket: an enemy will harass and cause loss; a young woman should keep her own counsel.
        • Pistol: owning one cultivates a low, designing character; hearing its report reveals a scheme to ruin you.
        • Pickaxe: a relentless enemy works to overthrow you socially; a broken one implies disaster to all interests.
        • Pimple: pimples marring beauty draw home and social criticism; seeing them on others means illness and complaints.
      • Trials, Health, and Misfortune
        • Penitentiary: being an inmate foretells discontent and failing business; escaping overcomes difficult obstacles.
        • Plague: a raging plague brings disappointing returns and a wretched home; escaping it means trouble pursues you.
        • Pit: falling into a deep pit brings calamity; waking at the fall rescues you from distress.
        • Pilgrim: being a pilgrim portends struggles with poverty and unsympathetic companions.
        • Phantom: a pursuing phantom brings strange disquiet; a fleeing phantom makes trouble smaller.
        • Pincers: feeling pincers on your flesh denotes exasperating cares; any dream of pincers is unfortunate.
    • Signs of Fortune, Enemies, and Morality (P · III)
      • Fortune and Prosperity
        • Plowing: self-plowing brings rapid property gains; a lover plowing promises a noble, wealthy husband.
        • Potatoes and Pot: digging, eating, planting potatoes signal success; boiling pot means pleasant social duties; broken pot disappoints.
        • Pocketbook, Purse, Present: filled purse and gifts mean luck; losing a pocketbook loses a friend.
        • Pump, Pond, Prairie: working a pump, clear water, and flowering prairies promise pleasure, calm fortune, ease.
        • Profits, Property, Purchases: dreams of profits, owning property, or buying portend success and friendships.
      • Enemies and Danger
        • Poison and Poinard: secret enemies attack through poison or dagger; throwing poison away conquers conditions.
        • Polar Bear and Pole-cat: fair-seeming danger, rivalry, and salacious
  • Q
    • Health, Sickness, and Healing
      • Quack doctor: dream warns of alarm over illness and improper treatment.
      • Quack medicine: taking it reveals morbid worry; cure is industrious duty; reading ads warns of unhappy companions.
      • Quinine: portends happiness despite modest wealth; taking it improves health and brings commercial friends.
      • Quinsy: being afflicted signals discouraging employment; seeing others sick brings anxiety.
      • Quarantine: enemy intrigue will place you in a disagreeable position.
    • Social Life and Character
      • Quaker: faithful friends and fair business; being one means honor to enemies; a girl’s meeting wins a faithful husband by modesty.
      • Quarrel: conflict foretells unhappiness or separation for women; hearing others quarrel warns of disappointing trade.
      • Quadrille: dancing a quadrille promises a pleasant engagement.
      • Quartette: playing or singing in one brings good times; merely hearing it means you aspire beyond your reach.
      • Quail: live quail are favorable; dead ones bring ill luck; shooting them hurts best friends; eating them signals extravagance.
    • Labor, Ventures, and Ambition
      • Quarry: busy workmen in a quarry mean advancement through hard labor; an idle quarry signals failure or death.
      • Quay: standing on a quay suggests a long tour; seeing vessels there fulfills wishes and designs.
      • Quills: literary workers get success; quills as ornaments mean rushing trade and reward.
      • Queen: dreaming of a queen predicts successful ventures; an old or haggard queen brings disappointments.
      • Quoits: playing quoits means low engagements and loss of good employment; losing portends distressing conditions.
    • Love, Marriage, and Deceit
      • Quagmire: being stuck implies inability to meet obligations; seeing others stuck means their failures affect you; illness may be indicated.
      • Quicksand: sinking means loss and deceit; failure to escape brings overwhelming misfortune; rescue by a lover promises a faithful husband.
      • Quilts: comfort overall; for a woman, clean quilts attract a practical husband, holes a lesser match, soiled quilts careless manners.
      • Quill hat: a young woman adorning a hat with quills seeks conquests; success rests on her charms.
      • Question: doubting a thing means suspecting a loved one; asking questions brings truth; being questioned warns of unfair dealing.
  • R
    • Omens of Fortune, Love, and Danger (R · I)
      • Animal Portents
        • Rabbit: favorable turns; white rabbits promise faithful love, frolicking ones children’s joys.
        • Ram: a pursuing ram threatens misfortune; a grazing ram brings powerful friends.
        • Rat: hidden deception and quarrels; catching or killing rats brings victory over enemies.
        • Raven: reverse in fortune and harmony; for a young woman, her lover will betray her.
        • Reptile: attacks signal serious trouble; killing one overcomes obstacles, a revived one renews disputes.
      • Nature, Harvest, and Luck
        • Rain: clear showers bring pleasure and prosperity; stormy rains are always unfortunate.
        • Rainbow: unusual happenings and promising affairs; lovers gain happiness in union.
        • Radish: growing radishes promises luck; eating them brings slight suffering through thoughtlessness.
        • Reapers: busy reapers show prosperity; idle ones or broken machines signal discouragement.
        • Raisins: eating raisins darkens hopes near the point of fulfillment.
      • Ventures and Commerce
        • Race: rivals aspire to your possessions; winning means overcoming competitors.
        • Raft: new ventures in new locations succeed; a broken raft warns of accident or sickness.
        • Railroad: business needs close attention; walking the rails brings happiness through skilled management.
        • Rent: new contracts prove profitable; inability to pay rent signals a decline in trade.
        • Rake: superintend work yourself; a broken rake brings sickness or accident.
      • Love and Social Life
        • Rattle: baby’s rattle promises domestic peace; for a young woman, early marriage.
        • Reception: pleasant engagements; confusion at a reception brings disquietude.
        • Ramble: rambling in the country brings sadness and separation, though material comfort remains.
        • Raspberry: seeing raspberries means entangling situations; a woman eating them faces gossip.
        • Rape: dreaming you are the victim foretells wounded pride and a lover’s estrangement.
      • Danger and Deceit
        • Raccoon: friendly-looking enemies deceive you.
        • Rage: quarrels and injury to friends; seeing others enraged means poor business and social unhappiness.
        • Rat-trap: falling in means victimization; setting one lets you outwit enemies.
        • Razor: disagreements and unlucky deals; broken or rusty razor brings distress.
        • Revenge: taking revenge reveals weakness and loses friends; others’ revenge brings fear.
      • Self and Conduct
        • Reading: engaged reading predicts excellence; indistinct reading brings worry.
        • Religion: discussing religion disturbs calm; innocent irreligiousness wins respect, hypocrisy disgusts.
        • Refrigerator: selfishness injures an honest worker; putting ice in brings disfavor.
        • Rescue: escaping danger with slight loss; rescuing others earns esteem.
        • Revelation: pleasant revelation brightens outlook; gloomy revelation forecasts discouragement.
    • R-Dreams: Fortune, Love, and Warnings (R · II)
      • Love, Marriage, and Rivalry
        • Ribbons: decorating yourself heralds a marriage offer; seeing rivals in ribbons warns of divided affection.
        • Rings: receiving one ends lover worries; a broken ring foretells quarrels or separation.
        • Roses: fragrant, blooming roses promise joyful occasions and faithful love; withered ones mean absence.
        • Rival: dreaming of a rival warns against slow assertion; being outwitted signals neglect and love of ease.
        • Rocket: ascending rockets promise successful wooing; falling ones predict unhappy unions.
      • Wealth and Fortune
        • Rice: seeing or eating it promises success, warm friendships, and domestic comfort.
        • Riches: possessing riches means constant exertion will raise you to high places.
        • Rising: rising to high positions shows study and advancement will bring desired wealth.
        • Roof: being on a roof denotes unbounded success; repairing one rapidly increases fortune.
        • Rooster: a rooster foretells prominence and success, but warns against conceit over rise.
      • Loss and Adversity
        • Rocks: seeing them foretells reverses, discord, and general unhappiness.
        • Ruins: signify broken engagements, business distress, and failing health.
        • Rhinoceros: seeing one threatens great loss and secret troubles; killing one overcomes obstacles.
        • River: clear, smooth water promises pleasures; muddy or turbulent water brings jealous contentions.
        • Rust: rust on metal denotes depression, sickness, and false friends.
      • Health and Sickness
        • Rheumatism: feeling it predicts unexpected delay in plans; seeing others afflicted brings disappointments.
        • Ringworms: having them foretells slight illness and exasperating difficulty; seeing them on others attracts beggars.
        • Rupture: dreaming you are ruptured denotes physical disorders or disagreeable contentions.
        • Rubber: limbs stretching like rubber warn of approaching illness and deceit in wooing or business.
        • Riding: dreaming of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure, and sickness often follows.
      • Character and Social Conduct
        • Revival: attending a religious revival foretells family disturbances and unprofitable engagements.
        • Rouge: using it foretells deceit to gain wishes; seeing it on clothing means detection.
        • Rubber garments: wearing them honors steady purity; torn ones warn scandal threatens reputation.
        • Rogue: thinking yourself a rogue foretells indiscretion and a passing malady.
        • Riot: dreaming of riots foretells disappointing affairs; a friend killed in one brings distress.
      • Home, Travel, and Daily Life
        • Road: rough, unknown road signifies new undertakings with grief; a flowered road brings unexpected fortune.
        • Rowboat: rowing with others gives pleasure from gay companions; a capsized boat brings financial losses.
        • Rudder: a rudder promises a pleasant foreign journey; a broken one brings disappointment and sickness.
        • Rye bread: seeing or eating it foretells a cheerful and well-appointed home.
        • Rocking-chair: rocking chairs bring friendly contentment; a vacant one warns of bereavement.
  • S
    • S-Symbols of Fortune, Foes, and Fidelity (S · I)
      • Prosperity and Enterprise
        • Safe: business and love stay secure; empty safe signals trouble.
        • Seed, sheaves, salmon: prosperity arrives despite unfavorable signs; harvests bring joy.
        • Salve, sapphire, sardonyx: adversity converts to gain; energy overthrows poverty.
        • Saw: active work yields cheerful returns; rusty or broken saws foretell failure.
        • Screw and samples: tedious tasks demand economy; samples mean business improvement.
      • Love, Courtship, and Fidelity
        • Sash, salad, salt: flirtatious attachment, quarrelsome lovers, and desertion shadow romance.
        • Scissors: bad omen — jealousy, nagging, and separations for wives and sweethearts.
        • Sea and sea foam: maidenly hopes can be fulfilled; material pleasure undermines modesty.
        • Shaking hands: high favor gloved; rivalry and opposition when reaching up.
        • Shirt and shaving: faithless conduct estranges lovers; domestic squalls follow dull razors.
      • Danger, Enemies, and Ill Omens
        • Serpents, scorpion, shark: morbidity, false friends, formidable enemies attack prosperity.
        • Scarlet fever and screech-owl: sickness, enemy power, shocking news of death or illness.
        • Satan: danger demands strategy; killing him means renouncing wicked companions.
        • Scalding and scaffold: distress blots pleasure; deception may end in exposure.
        • Scythe and sand: accidents, famine, and losses obstruct plans and journeys.
      • Social Standing and Reputation
        • Scandal: dubious companions dull business; marriage rarely follows.
        • Sceptre and sentry: friends entrust positions; kind protectors smooth life.
        • Servant and sewing: fortune despite gloomy looks; domestic peace crowns new garments.
        • Secret order: sensitive organism; selfish, designing friendships for joiners.
        • Sanskrit and school teacher: estrangement for hidden studies; quiet learning and amusement.
      • Aspiration and Transformation
        • School: literary distinction, but sorrow revives longing for childhood trusts.
        • Sculptor: change to a less lucrative, more distinguished position.
        • Seal: ambition above one's station breeds discontent and striving.
        • Shelter and shepherd: escape evil designs; crops bless industry, idleness brings sickness.
        • Shakers: business changes and coldness toward sweetheart; renouncing ties for new distances.
    • Clothing, Work, Conflict, and Dream Omens (S · II)
      • Clothing and Adornment
        • Shirt: torn shirt means misfortune and miserable surroundings; soiled shirt warns of contagious disease.
        • Shirt-studs: struggling to humor your pride usually succeeds; diamond center stud promises wealth and congenial friends.
        • Shoes: ragged shoes create enemies through unfeeling criticism; blacked shoes improve your affairs.
        • New shoes: beneficial changes ahead; pinching shoes expose you to fun-loving companions' practical jokes.
        • Silk: wearing silk gratifies high ambitions and reconciles estranged friends; old silk brings ancestral pride and wealthy elderly wooer.
      • Work and Livelihood
        • Shoemaker: seeing one is unfavorable to advancement; a woman dreaming her lover is a shoemaker gains competency.
        • Shop: scheming, jealous friends oppose every effort you make for advancement.
        • Shovel or spade: laborious but pleasant work; a broken shovel frustrates hopes, and a spade means annoying supervision.
        • Sowing: sowing seed in new-ploughed soil promises fruitful returns; seeing others sow portends profitable business activity.
        • Silkworm: profitable work places you in a prominent position; dead silkworms signal reverses and trying times.
      • Conflict and Danger
        • Shooting: seeing or hearing shooting means unhappiness between couples and negligent business.
        • Shot: being shot brings unexpected abuse from friends; escaping death by waking reconciles you with them.
        • Shotgun: domestic troubles with children and servants; firing both barrels makes your righteous wrath justifiable.
        • Slaughter-house: you will be feared more than loved; business exposes private drains and unkind insinuations.
        • Soldiers: marching soldiers bring excesses and promotion above rivals; wounded soldiers complicate your affairs.
      • Sickness, Death, and the Body
        • Sickness: dreaming of sickness means family trouble and real sickness; your own sickness warns you to be cautious.
        • Shroud: sickness, false friends, and business decline; a shroud removed from a corpse foretells alienation through quarrels.
        • Skeleton: seeing a skeleton portends illness, misunderstanding, and injury from enemies; being one reveals useless worry.
        • Skull: grinning skulls signal domestic quarrels and business shrinkage; seeing your own skull means serving remorse.
        • Sores and smallpox: sores bring illness, mental distress, and decay; smallpox portends shocking sickness and failure.
      • Social and Emotional Life
        • Singing: cheerful singing betokens happy companions and promising news; sad singing portends unpleasant surprises.
        • Sleep: clean beds bring peace and favor from loved ones; sleeping beside a child betokens domestic joys.
        • Sigh: sighing over trouble brings sadness with redeeming brightness; hearing others' sighs portends gloom from friends' misconduct.
        • Slighted: slighting others makes you miss happiness; being slighted gives cause to bemoan your position.
        • Slander: dreaming you are slandered signals untruthful dealings; slandering others loses friends through selfishness.
      • Weather, Animals, and Mystic Omens
        • Sky: clear sky brings distinguished honors and cultured travel; red sky portends public disquiet.
        • Snow: snow denotes apparent illness and unsatisfactory enterprises; melting snow turns fears into joy.
        • Snakes: snakes forebode evil; killing them secures victory over enemies, while bites mean succumbing to evil influences.
        • Smoke: smoke foretells doubts and fears; being overcome by smoke means dangerous flatterers victimize you.
        • Soul: soul leaving the body warns against useless sacrifice; discussing soul's immortality brings knowledge and intellectual friendship.
    • S-Word Omens of Fortune and Foe (S · III)
      • Creatures as Omens
        • Spiders: weaving webs brings home security and fortune; killing one quarrels with wife or sweetheart.
        • Spider bites: large bite loses fortune to enemies; small bite brings spites and jealousies.
        • Squirrels and stags: pleasant friends and honest companions; killing a squirrel makes you disliked.
        • Stallion: riding a fine stallion brings phenomenal rise, but success warps morality.
        • Swallows and swans: peace, domestic harmony, and prosperous outlooks; dead ones portend sadness.
      • Home, Work, and Enterprise
        • Stairs: ascending promises good fortune; descending or falling warns envy, hatred, or failure.
        • Store: a full store indicates prosperity; an empty one predicts failure and quarrels.
        • Sweeping: sweeping brings favor and family pleasure; neglected floors bring distress.
        • Spools and spinning: long arduous tasks meet expectations; empty spools warn disappointments.
        • Stable: stable is a sign of fortune; a burning stable signals successful change.
      • Love, Family, and Reputation
        • Sweetheart: affable sweetheart promises joy and inheritance; sick or corpse signals doubt and sadness.
        • Stockings: ragged stockings warn a young woman of unwise conduct; fancy ones invite men's attention.
        • Squinting: squint-eyed people annoy you; a girl squinting at a man warns loss through women.
        • Swearing: swearing before family brings disagreements from unloyal conduct; lovers suspect faithfulness.
        • Suicide: committing suicide loads misfortune; a lover's suicide accentuates disappointment.
      • Body, Health, and Sensations
        • Stings and splinters: insect stings foretell evil; splinters mean vexations from family or rivals.
        • Stammering: your stammer threatens worry and illness; hearing others portends annoying people.
        • Swellings: self-swelling means fortune but egotism; others' swollen bodies signal envious obstruction.
        • Suffocating: suffocation foretells sorrow from a loved one's conduct and warns of health issues.
        • Sweet taste: sweet taste means praise for calm conduct; trying to discard it brings friends' displeasure.
      • Sun, Sky, and Storms
        • Stars: clear stars bless health and prosperity; dull, red, or falling stars warn grief.
        • Sun: sunrise and noon signal ambitions matured; sunset warns joys and wealth are passing.
        • Storm: approaching storm brings sickness and separation; if it passes, affliction lightens.
        • Spring: advancing spring indicates fortunate undertakings; unnatural spring portends disquiet and losses.
      • Fortune, Danger, and Deception
        • Spirits: white-robed spirits threaten a friend's health; black-robed warn treachery.
        • Spy and stealing: spies harassing you portend dangerous quarrels; stealing foretells bad luck and loss of character.
        • Sulphur and stones: sulphur warns of foul play; stones signal perplexities and a rough path.
        • Sword: wearing a sword earns public honor; a broken sword portends despair.
        • Switch: a switch brings changes and misfortune; a broken one foretells disgrace and trouble.
  • T
    • Dream Omens from Table to Throat (T · I)
      • Home and Household Omens
        • Table: set for a meal promises happy unions; empty or broken tables signal poverty and quarrels.
        • Tea, teacups, teakettle: brewing tea warns of indiscretion; spilled or broken cups bring grief.
        • Tapestry and tape: rich tapestry promises luxury; tape portends wearisome, unprofitable work.
        • Thread and thatch: broken thread means faithless friends; perishable thatch brings sorrow, yet energy averts leaks.
        • Tacks and thimble: tacks mean vacations and quarrels; a lost thimble portends poverty and trouble.
      • Body, Health, and Personal Omens
        • Teeth: loose, lost, or decayed teeth portend sickness, burdens, or death; clean white teeth bring happiness.
        • Throat and thigh: graceful throat raises station; sore throat reveals a false friend; wounded thigh warns treachery.
        • Tail and tattoo: beast's tail means annoyance; cut tail brings carelessness-caused misfortune; tattoos foretell long absence.
        • Tar and tapeworm: tar warns of treacherous enemies and sickness; tapeworm signals bad health or pleasure prospects.
        • Tears and thirst: tears bring affliction; thirst marks aspiration beyond reach, quenched wishes granted.
      • Love, Pleasure, and Social Life
        • Talisman and tassels: talisman wins rich friends and marriage wishes; lost tassels bring unpleasantness.
        • Teasing: teasing wins affection and success; being teased attracts merry, wealthy partners.
        • Theater and tambourine: theater pleases with new friends; grand opera fulfills wishes; tambourine heralds unusual joy.
        • Text and thaw: hearing a text portends quarrels; thawing ice turns worry into profit.
      • Business, Money, and Enterprise
        • Taxes and tank: paying taxes destroys evil influences; full tank promises prosperity, leaking tank loss.
        • Tannery and tenant: tannery portends illness and trade loss; paying tenant brings success.
        • Threshing and tenpins: threshing grain advances business; playing tenpins brings discredit and lost friendship.
        • Thermometer and thief: falling mercury distresses business; capturing a thief overcomes enemies.
      • News, Travel, and Communication
        • Telegram and telephone: receiving telegrams brings bad tidings; telephone strangers harass your affairs.
        • Telescope: changeable love and business; viewing stars promises pleasure then financial loss.
        • Tailor: tailor means journey worries; measuring portends quarrels and disappointment.
        • Talking: talking portends sick relatives; loud talk warns against meddling; being talked about signals illness.
        • Tent: tent means changed affairs; many tents mean unpleasant journeys; torn tents bring trouble.
      • Threats, Enemies, and Misfortune
        • Tarantula and thorns: tarantula means enemy-caused loss; killing it succeeds after ill-luck; hidden thorns mean secret foes.
        • Tempest and terror: tempest brings calamity and indifferent friends; terror portends disappointment and loss.
        • Temptation: surrounded by temptation means an envious rival; resisting brings success.
        • Tadpole and target: tadpoles mean uncertain speculation; a target demands attention, and a woman-target risks reputation.
        • Tallow: tallow forebodes love and wealth vanishing quickly.
    • Omens of Fortune, Danger, and Travel (T · II)
      • Portents of Fortune and Ruin
        • Throne: sitting on a throne forecasts fast rise to favor; descending brings disappointment.
        • Tower: climbing a tower fulfills wishes; crumbling on descent dashes hopes.
        • Tree: climbing a tree signals swift elevation; cutting one down warns wasted wealth.
        • Treasure: finding treasure brings unexpected aid; losing it foretells bad luck and false friends.
        • Trumpet: blowing a trumpet signifies gaining your wishes; hearing one signals unusual interest.
      • Creatures as Omens
        • Tiger: advancing tiger means persecution; killing or warding it off brings success.
        • Toad: toads signify unfortunate adventures; for women, scandal threatens good name.
        • Trout: hooking trout assures pleasure and competence; muddy water warns love will grieve.
        • Turkey: seeing turkeys signals abundant gain; eating one foretells a joyful occasion.
        • Turtle: seeing turtles improves business; turtle soup hints at pleasurable intrigue.
      • Body, Health, and Self
        • Thumb: sore thumb means business loss; missing thumb implies destitution and loneliness.
        • Tongue: seeing your own tongue draws disfavor; affected tongue warns careless talk brings trouble.
        • Toothless: dreaming you are toothless foretells inability to advance and ill health.
        • Typhoid: dreaming of typhoid warns to guard health and beware enemies.
        • Tickle: being tickled denotes insistent worries and illness; tickling others wastes enjoyment.
      • Storms, Tombs, and Traps
        • Thunder: hearing thunder threatens business reverses; earth-shaking peals portend great loss.
        • Tornado: being in a tornado fills you with disappointment over failed plans for fortune.
        • Tomb: seeing tombs brings sadness in business; your own tomb portends sickness.
        • Tunnel: going through a tunnel bodes ill for business and love; a caving tunnel means failure.
        • Trap: being caught in a trap means outwitted by opponents; empty trap warns misfortune.
      • Travel, Trade, and Domestic Omens
        • Traveling: travel signifies profit and pleasure; rough places portend enemies and sickness.
        • Train: moving train means a journey; smooth train without track worries then profits.
        • Trunk: packing a trunk promises a pleasant trip; empty trunks disappoint love and marriage.
        • Trade: trading indicates fair success; failure brings trouble and annoyances.
        • Till: money in a till foretells success; empty till denotes disappointed expectations.
  • U
    • Social Image and Romance
      • Ugly: dreaming you are ugly predicts sweetheart conflict and depressed prospects; self-perceived ugliness makes a woman offend her lover.
      • Undress: undressing in a dream foretells scandalous gossip; seeing others undressed warns stolen pleasures will rebound with grief.
      • Unfortunate: dreaming you are unfortunate signifies loss to yourself and trouble for others.
      • Uniform: for a young woman, wearing one attracts a man returning love for passion; discarding it risks public scandal.
    • Health and Domestic Disorder
      • Ulcer: seeing an ulcer in dreams signifies loss of friends and removal from loved ones; having one makes you unpopular through foolish pleasures.
      • Urinal: dreaming of a urinal indicates disorder will predominate in your home.
      • Urine: seeing urine foretells ill health and disagreeableness; urinating omens bad luck and trying seasons to love.
    • Umbrella and Urn Omens
      • Umbrella: carrying one denotes trouble and annoyances; borrowing or lending one brings misunderstandings or false friends.
      • Umbrella broken: a torn or broken umbrella foretells misrepresentation and malice; a leaky one spells pain toward sweethearts or companions.
      • New umbrella: carrying a new umbrella in a clear shower or sunshine omens exquisite pleasure and prosperity.
      • Urn: seeing an urn promises mixed prosperity and disfavor; broken urns confront you with unhappiness.
    • Family, Authority, and Competition
      • Uncle: seeing your uncle brings sad news; seeing him prostrated repeatedly warns of estrangement from relatives.
      • Uncle dead: a dead uncle denotes formidable enemies; misunderstanding with him predicts unpleasant family relations and illness.
      • Uniform: seeing a uniform gains influential friends; strange uniforms on people forecast disrupted friendly relations.
      • Usurper: being a usurper means trouble establishing a good property title; others usurping your rights ends in your victory.
      • Usurper for a woman: a young woman dreaming of usurpation wins a spicy rivalry.
    • Ventures, Money, and the Unknown
      • Underground: being in an underground habitation risks reputation and fortune; riding an underground railway foretells a distressing peculiar speculation.
      • Mail box: a U.S. mail box warns of allegedly illegal transactions; putting a letter in one makes you answerable for another's irregularity.
      • Unknown: meeting unknown persons foretells change for good or ill according to looks; feeling unknown casts a shadow of ill luck.
      • Urgent: supporting an urgent petition signals an affair needing fine financiering.
      • Usurer: being a usurer predicts cold associates and business decline; seeing others usurers makes you discard a treacherous friend.
  • V
    • Love and Courtship
      • Vaccination: dream of being vaccinated foretells sorrow through susceptibility to female charms; young woman vaccinated on leg faces treachery
      • Valentine: sending valentines forfeits opportunities to enrich yourself; receiving one predicts a weak but ardent lover against guardians
      • Veil: wearing one signals insincerity; losing it exposes deceit; bridal veil brings happiness, torn veil warns of sinister design
      • Violets: gathering them brings joy and a future husband; dry or withered violets mean love scorned and thrown aside
      • Virginity: virgin dreams mean comparative luck in speculations; married-woman virginity means remorse; man's illicit union foils aspirations
    • Fortune and Enterprise
      • Valley: green valleys foretell business improvements and happy lovers; barren or marshy valleys reverse the omen
      • Velvet: wearing it confers distinction and successful enterprises; old velvet means prosperity suffers through extreme pride
      • Victory: winning a victory foretells resisting enemies and love for the asking
      • Vines and vineyards: flowering vines bring success and health; dead or poisonous vines mean failure; vineyard favors speculations and love
      • Voyage: making a voyage foretells inheritance beyond your labors; disastrous voyage brings incompetence and false loves
      • Vegetables: eating them seems successful but proves to be gross imposition; withered vegetables bring unmitigated woe
    • Danger and Illness
      • Vagrant and vermin: being a vagrant portends poverty and misery; vermin signify sickness and trouble, death if you cannot rid yourself of them
      • Vault and vat: a vault denotes bereavement; open vault doors imply loss and treachery; a vat means anguish from cruel persons
      • Viper and vultures: a viper threatens calamity; a many-hued self-unjointing viper means enemies united yet apart; vultures warn of scheming injury
      • Vomit, vertigo, and veins: vomiting threatens invalidism or scandal; vertigo means loss in domestic happiness; bleeding veins bring great sorrow, swollen veins distinction
      • Vehicle and violence: riding a vehicle foretells threatened loss or illness; broken vehicle signals failure; violence done to you means overcome by enemies
      • Volcano and vitriol: volcano signals violent disputes threatening reputation; vitriol warns of censuring the innocent and enemy persecution
    • Deceit and Moral Hazards
      • Varnishing and veneer: varnishing denotes seeking distinction by fraud; veneering means systematically deceiving friends with misleading speculations
      • Ventriloquist: hearing one means treasonable affairs harm your interests; thinking yourself one means dishonoring people who trust you
      • Vice and victim: favoring vice endangers reputation; being a victim means oppression by enemies and strained family; victimizing others brings dishonorable wealth
      • Vinegar: drinking vinegar leads to exasperated assent to an engagement; using it on vegetables deepens distressing affairs
      • Vote and vow: fraudulent voting lets dishonesty overcome inclinations; breaking a vow brings disaster, while church vows mean integrity
    • Domestic, Social, and Spiritual Life
      • Vase: home contentment; broken vase early sorrow; a young woman receiving one obtains her dearest wish
      • Veranda and village: veranda success in an anxious affair, young woman with lover early marriage; village promises health and provision
      • Visit: pleasant visits bring happy occasions; a pale or black-clad visitor predicts serious illness or accidents
      • Vexed and voices: vexation foreshadows scattered worries; calm voices reconcile, angry voices disappoint, weeping voices injure a friend
      • Vicars, vessels, and violins: vicar warns of jealous folly; vessels denote labor; violin foretells family harmony, broken violin separation
      • Visions and Vatican: strange visions foretell misfortune; later business changes prove good; Vatican brings unexpected favors; God's voice means noble principles
  • W
    • Omens of Water, Work, and Weddings (W · I)
      • Water and Natural Omens
        • Clear water: joyfully realized prosperity; muddy water brings danger and gloom.
        • Rising water: struggle against evil; if it subsides, you resist — if not, succumb.
        • Drinking water: clear refreshment fulfills hopes; muddy drink portends sickness.
        • Falling into muddy water: bitter mistakes and poignant grief.
        • Waterfall: you will secure your wildest desire; fortune favors your progress.
        • Waves: clear waves yield knowledge; muddy or storm-lashed waves signal fatal error.
      • Work, Wealth, and Enterprises
        • Wages: receiving them brings good to new ventures; paying them out means dissatisfaction.
        • Wagon: driving uphill improves worldly affairs; broken wagon portends distress and failure.
        • Warehouse: a stocked warehouse means successful enterprise; empty one warns of being cheated.
        • Wealth: dreaming you are wealthy forces success; seeing others wealthy brings friends to rescue you.
        • Weaving: weaving yourself baffles defeat; watching others weaves healthy conditions around you.
        • Walking: pleasant paths bring fortune and favor; rough entangled paths distress business.
      • Love, Courtship, and Women's Omens
        • Wading in clear foam: a young woman gains the desire nearest her heart.
        • Waist and shirt-waist: round waist wins fortune; adjusting a shirt-waist defeats love rivalry.
        • Waltz: waltzing with lover wins admiration, but no one seeks her as wife.
        • Washing yourself: signifies pride in the numberless liaisons you maintain.
        • Wallet: pleasant burdens await discretion; old or soiled wallet means unfavorable labor results.
        • Water spray on head: passionate awakening to love meets reciprocal consummation.
      • Enemies, Obstacles, and Warnings
        • Wasps: enemies scourge and vilify; killing them lets you maintain rights.
        • Warts: on you, honor attacked; on others, bitter enemies near.
        • Webs: deceitful friends cause loss; non-elastic web means firm resistance.
        • Warrant: served on you, uneasiness over important work; on another, fatal quarrels.
        • Walls: jumping over wall overcomes obstacles; demolishing one overthrows enemies.
        • Weasel: beware former enemies' friendship; destroying them foils deep schemes.
      • Weddings and Marriage
        • Wedding: attending one portends bitterness and delayed success.
        • Secret wedding: unfavorable to character; imports probable downfall.
        • Gay wedding: reverses may be expected; mourning at wedding means unhappiness in married life.
        • Wedding ring: bright ring shields from cares; lost or broken ring brings sadness.
        • Wedding clothes: pleasing works and new friends; soiled clothes lose an admired relation.
    • Love, Labor, Danger, and Dream Counsel (W · II)
      • Wedlock, Women, and Love
        • Wedding ring: seeing one on another's hand courts illicit pleasure and broken vows.
        • Wedlock: unwanted bonds entangle you; a woman secure in wedlock dreams propitiously.
        • Wife: an affable wife brings trade profit; dreaming of your own wife signals home discord.
        • Widow: dreaming you are a widow brings troubles from malicious persons; a man marrying one sees undertakings crumble.
        • Wine: drinking wine brings joy and friendships; a young woman's wine dream portends honorable marriage.
      • Labor, Trade, and Fortune
        • Wheat: ripe fields and full granaries assure fortune; wet grain warns of enemies shrinking your interests.
        • Weighing: weighing marks a prosperous period; weighing others lets you subordinate them.
        • Wool: clean wool signals opportunity to expand interests; dirty wool means undesired employment.
        • Work: hard work wins merited success; seeking work benefits from an unaccountable occurrence.
        • Welcome: receiving welcome brings distinction and fortune; according it admits you to pleasures.
      • Storms, Enemies, and Downfall
        • Whirlpool: business danger looms; a disgraceful intrigue may blacken your reputation.
        • Whirlwind: confronting one threatens loss; a young woman caught in it risks scandal and ostracism.
        • Wolf: a thieving employee will betray secrets; killing a wolf defeats sly enemies.
        • Window: broken windows sow suspicion of disloyalty; entering through one exposes dishonorable designs.
        • Wreck: a wrecked ship foretells fear of destitution and sudden business failure.
      • Sickness, Mortality, and Healing
        • White moth: unavoidable sickness; a settling moth foreshadows death of friends or relatives.
        • Winter: dreaming of winter prognosticates ill-health and dreary fortune.
        • Wound: being wounded signals distress; dressing a wound brings good fortune.
        • Wet: being wet warns that pleasure may bring loss and disease; soaked young woman faces disgrace.
        • White lead: carelessness puts relatives or children in danger; prosperity withholds favor.
      • Counsel, Morality, and Self-Knowledge
        • Wisdom: possessing wisdom makes your spirit brave; lacking it means wasting native talents.
        • Whispering: gossiping disturbs you; a warning whisper reminds you that you need counsel.
        • Will: making a will portends trials; losing one is bad for business; destroying one warns of treachery.
        • Whisky: drinking alone sacrifices friends; seeing bottles means careful interest, but disappointment looms.
        • Witch: adventures yield hilarious enjoyment, then mortification; business and home suffer.
      • Grief, Nature, and Change
        • Weeping: tears in dreams foretell family disturbance; seeing others weep promises reunion after estrangement.
        • Wind: soft sad wind brings fortune through bereavement; walking against it resists temptation.
        • Woods: green woods bring lucky change; stripped woods calamity; burning woods mature plans.
        • Well: drawing water fulfills ardent desires; falling into a well means overwhelming despair.
        • Wings: seeing bird wings means overcoming adversity to wealth; having wings fears for a traveler.
  • Y
    • Work, Wealth, and Enterprise
      • Yarn: success in business and an industrious companion at home.
      • Yardstick: anxiety possess you, though your affairs assume unusual activity.
      • Yielding to another: weak indecision throws away a chance to elevate yourself.
      • Others yielding to you: exclusive privileges and elevation above associates.
      • Poor yield for labor: cares and worries attend your efforts.
    • Love, Longing, and a Woman's Fate
      • Yearning for absent friends: soon hear comforting tidings from them.
      • Young woman yearned for by lover: a long-wished-for proposal is near.
      • Letting him know she yearns: she is left alone, and her longings grow.
      • Young woman working with yarn: proudly recognized as a worthy man's wife.
      • Young woman under a yew tree: fears over fortune and a lover's faithfulness.
      • Admiring a yew tree: mesalliance estranges her from relatives.
    • Health, Illness, and Danger
      • Yawning yourself: search in vain for health and contentment.
      • Seeing others yawn: friends in misery; sickness stops their usual labors.
      • Yellow bird flitting: a great event casts sickening fear of the future.
      • Sick or dead yellow bird: suffering for another's wild folly.
      • Yew tree: forerunner of illness and disappointment.
      • Dead, stripped yew tree: sad death in family; no property consoles.
    • Custom, Duty, and Obligation
      • Seeing a yoke: unwillingly conform to customs and wishes of others.
      • Yoking oxen: your judgment and counsels accepted submissively by dependents.
      • Failing to yoke oxen: anxiety over a prodigal friend.
      • Yankee: loyal and true to promise and duty, but risk being outwitted.
      • Yacht: happy recreation away from business; stranded one ruins engagements.
    • Youth, Family, and Festivity
      • Seeing young people: reconciliation of family disagreements; favorable new enterprises.
      • Dreaming you are young again: mighty but failed efforts to recall lost opportunities.
      • Mother sees son as infant: old wounds healed; youthful hopes and cheerfulness return.
      • Infant son dying: ill fortune and misery attend her.
      • Young people in school: prosperity and usefulness surround you with favors.
      • Yule log: joyous anticipations realized at great festivities.
  • Z
    • Portents of Fortune, Love, and Ventures (Z · I)
      • Ventures and Material Progress
        • Zinc: seeing or working with it indicates substantial progress and a brisk business tone.
        • Zinc ore: its appearance promises the approach of eventful success.
        • Zebra: dreaming of one means interest in varying, fleeting enterprises.
        • Wild zebra: pursuing a chimerical fancy brings unsatisfactory pleasure upon possession.
      • Prosperity and Affection
        • Zenith: portends elaborate prosperity and a successful choice of suitors.
        • Zephyr: soft breezes signify sacrificing fortune to win reciprocal affection.
        • Zephyr whispers: a young woman’s sadness foretells disquiet from her lover’s compelled absence.
      • Zodiac’s Ambiguous Signs
        • Zodiac: predicts unparalleled material rise, but with alloyed peace and happiness.
        • Weird zodiac: grief hovers nearby; strenuous efforts are needed to dispel it.
        • Studying the zodiac: brings distinction and favor through dealings with strangers.
        • Approaching zodiac: speculations succeed beyond your wildest imagination.
        • Zodiac map: drawing it signifies future gain.
      • Travel and Shifting Fortune
        • Zoological garden: visiting one denotes a varied fortune.
        • Alternating fortunes: enemies may overpower you, then you stand in the front rank of success.
        • Foreign knowledge: travel and sojourn abroad bring knowledge and gain.
    • Dream Symbols from Gulls to Snow (Z · II)
      • The Animal Kingdom
        • Birds: gulls, hawks, owls, ravens, and roosters carry messages and warnings.
        • Beasts: horses, hogs, oxen, lions, and bears embody power, appetite, and instinct.
        • Small creatures: mice, moles, lice, snails, and snakes hint at hidden annoyances.
        • Hunting and herds: hounds, hunters, shepherds, and sheep reveal pursuit and reliance.
      • Body, Sickness, and Healing
        • Body parts: hair, hands, heart, head, lips, legs, and liver map identity and vitality.
        • Illness: sickness, measles, smallpox, palsy, and hydrophobia expose health fears.
        • Healers: physician, medicine, hospital, and quack doctor promise cure or fraud.
        • Pain and hurt: wounds, injuries, rheumatism, and limping signal physical or emotional strain.
      • People and Society
        • Authority: king, queen, judge, jury, police, magistrate, and sheriff embody power.
        • Outcasts: gypsy, harlot, hermit, hunchback, pauper, and prisoner reveal social margins.
        • Family ties: husband, mother, parents, nephew, niece, and nuptial rites frame obligation.
        • Work roles: mechanic, miller, miner, lawyer, teacher, servant, and porter represent livelihood.
      • Home, Tools, and Daily Objects
        • Dwellings: house, home, hut, mansion, palace, shanty, and hotel frame security.
        • Tools: hammer, hoe, knife, needle, loom, machinery, and locomotive signal labor.
        • Clothing: hat, hood, shoes, slippers, shawl, necklace, and jewels mirror identity.
        • Household articles: keys, locks, mirrors, kettles, lamps, ropes, and paper fill daily life.
      • Nature, Weather, and Travel
        • Weather: rain, hail, snow, lightning, hurricane, mist, and rainbow reflect mood.
        • Landscape: hills, mountains, rocks, island, lake, river, sea, and prairie chart terrain.
        • Travel: road, railroad, ship, sailing, locomotive, and journey mark direction.
        • Plants: harvest, hay, herbs, lilies, roses, pine trees, and nettles signal growth.
      • Fate, Spirit, and Transgression
        • Religion: heaven, hell, holy communion, prayer, preacher, and priest map belief.
        • Death: hearse, obituary, passing bell, resurrection, judgment day, and mausoleum confront mortality.
        • Crime and punishment: murder, homicide, jail, prison, penalty, and scaffold weigh guilt.
        • Occult: horoscope, incantation, necromancer, ouija, palmistry, and magic tap hidden forces.
    • Portents of Everyday Life (Z · III)
      • Household Objects and Daily Toil
        • Soap and washing: cleansing dreams speak of reputation — washing away blame, scandal, or regret
        • Tableware and tea things: teacups, kettles, and sugar-tongs make meals the stage of family harmony and discord
        • Tools and implements: spades, spools, and thimbles turn daily labor into signs of thrift, duty, and domestic standing
        • Dress and fabrics: stockings, velvet, veils, and wigs — clothing reveals the social self the dreamer shows the world
      • Animals, Insects, and Wild Nature
        • Creeping creatures: spiders, spider-webs, and tarantulas — small pests signal entanglements and hidden annoyances
        • Beasts and birds: sparrows, stags, tigers, wolves, and whales — animals embody passions, enemies, or powers to master
        • Weather and waters: storms, whirlwinds, tempests, and waves — turbulent nature mirrors upheaval and coming trials
        • Crops and growth: vineyards, turnips, wheat, and walnuts — harvests tie dream fortunes to patient sowing and reaping
      • Body, Health, and Suffering
        • Ailments: sores, ulcers, swelling, and toothless mouths — bodily decay portends hidden physical or moral trouble
        • Healing arts: surgeons, stethoscopes, and vaccination — medical images urge care for the dreamer's vital condition
        • Vital processes: thirst, suffocation, vomiting, and urine — inner excess and blockage surface as release or distress
        • Defects and failures: stammering, stillborn births, and stings — infirmity and loss warn of frail hopes
      • Morality, Society, and the State
        • Social roles: socialist, soldier, tenant, tourist — dreamed identities locate the dreamer in the social order
        • Crime and oath: stealing, thief, traitor, warrant, swearing — offenses and oaths test honor and honesty
        • Money and burden: taxes, wages, trusts, usurers — finance appears as obligation, temptation, or reckoning
        • Public deeds: vote, vow, war, victory — collective life enters as duty, conflict, or acclaim
      • The Supernatural, Death, and the Soul
        • Occult figures: sorcerer, witch, wizard, sybil — uncanny guides bring warnings from beyond ordinary life
        • Death and the grave: tomb, stillborn, yew tree — burial imagery closes the cycle of mortal hopes
        • Visions and destiny: somnambulist, visions, zodiac — trance and heavenly signs point to fate and hidden purpose
      • Love, Marriage, and Family
        • Betrothal: sweetheart, valentine, wedding ring — courtship dreams bind desire to promise and ceremony
        • Kin and household: step-sister, twins, wife, widow — family figures mirror bonds of blood, duty, and loss
        • Social rites: visit, waltz, wedding clothes — ceremony rehearses the dreamer's hopes and anxieties
• Core Conclusion and Practical Takeaways
  • Core Doctrine
    • Dreams are prophetic: the higher self impresses future events on the sleeping mind.
    • Three-fold man: body, soul, and spirit; spiritual insight enters only when the will is passive.
    • Psychic sight real: foretelling dreams are facts; skeptics must deny them or admit a spiritual cause.
    • Universal symbolism: dreams speak in allegory and symbols, scaled to the dreamer’s station.
  • Reading Dream Types
    • Spiritual dreams: deepest prophecy — the higher self reflects approaching events.
    • Physical dreams: caused by health, fever, opiates, or waking anxiety; not prophetic.
    • Subjective dreams: pictures of the past hidden in symbols, auguring fortune.
    • Contrary dreams: material crowding and constant dwelling make dreams oppose waking reality; less prescient.
    • No duplicate dreams: nature never repeats; interpret by families of kindred symbols, not exact detail.
  • Daily Practices
    • Prepare the mind: clear it of material rubbish before sleep to receive true dreams.
    • Practice passive surrender: relax mind and body, consciously receptive at bedtime.
    • Record and study impressions: retaining dream guidance requires developing inner receptivity.
    • Weigh your state: health, habits, temperament, and mental state determine a dream's meaning.
    • Follow dead-relatives’ advice: the voice is the higher self in familiar form; heeding it can avert disaster.
  • Mindset Shifts
    • Harmony of two laws: unite intuition’s spiritual world with reason’s material world for normal being.
    • Moral hygiene matters: evil thoughts infest the soul with vicious images; good thoughts create a heaven.
    • Material desires cloud sight: selfish appetites crowd out spiritual symbols and weaken foresight.
    • Death dreams are often symbolic: death scenes can mean old thoughts supplanted, not literal death.
    • Dreams exaggerate: with the will suspended, a knock can sound like a pistol shot; don’t panic.
  • Practical Warnings
    • Every dream warns: all dreams carry an element of warning or prescience; observe carefully.
    • Success and calamity signs: clear water, ripe fruit, and bright flowers favor; stormy water, withered plants, and broken objects warn.
    • Beware flattering omens: opulence, fine clothes, or easy wealth in dreams can mask disgrace or loss.
    • Dreams fit the dreamer: a peasant’s wealth is a coin; interpretation must match your station.
    • Interpret by families, not details: class dreams like digits in mathematics to find their esoteric import.