Anvil
The anvil is where things are forged — hot iron, flying sparks, work that shapes. In dreams it often marks pleasing, productive labour, an abundance won through effort. Cold or small, it offers only modest favours. The dream tends to ask what we are forging, and whether the fire of the work is still in us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for anvil, 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 hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work; to the farmer, an abundant crop; favorable indeed to women. Cold, or small, favors may be expected from those in power. The means of success is in your power, but in order to obtain it you will have to labor under difficulty. If the anvil is broken, it foretells that you have, through your own neglect, thrown away promising opportunities that cannot be recalled.