Abbot
The abbot is a figure of devotion and quiet authority, and in dreams he can cut both ways — genuine guidance, or flattery that draws us where we should not go. The dream may invite a closer look at whose counsel we are following, and whether the piety we are shown is real or a pleasing surface.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for abbot, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots are being laid for your downfall.
If you see this pious man in devotional exercises, it forewarns you of smooth flattery and deceit pulling you a willing victim into the meshes of artful bewilderment.
For a young woman to talk with an abbot, portends that she will yield to insinuating flatteries, and in yielding she will besmirch her reputation. If she marries one, she will uphold her name and honor despite poverty and temptation.
[3] See similar words in connection with churches, priests, etc.