Abbey
An abbey speaks to refuge and the longing for something settled and sacred. Seen whole, it suggests shelter; seen in ruins, it can mirror hopes that have quietly fallen into incompletion. Either way the dream tends to ask what we have built to last, and whether it still holds the meaning we once gave it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abbey, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.
To dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey, denotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies mistaking your embarrassment for progress.
For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness. If she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure of true friends for indiscretion.