Apes
The ape in a dream often carries the note of mimicry and the false friend — a malicious presence wearing a familiar face. It can warn of someone near who is not what they seem. The dream tends to ask whom we have let close, and whether their likeness to a friend hides a different intent.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for apes, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.
To see a small ape cling to a tree, warns the dreamer to beware; a false person is close to you and will cause unpleasantness in your circle. Deceit goes with this dream.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Monkey.) To dream you have seen or had any thing to do with them, signifies malicious, though secret enemies; and warns you against carrying on law-suits.