Arm
The arm is strength, reach, and the means to hold and act. To dream of one severed can carry a sinister weight — separation, a rift between those bound together, a loss of capacity. The dream tends to ask where our strength or connection is threatened, and what we fear being cut off from.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for arm, 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 of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce. Mutual dissatisfaction will occur between husband and wife. It is a dream of sinister import. Beware of deceitfulness and fraud.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream your arms are withered or lean, denotes affliction, sickness and poverty; and if a woman, she is in danger of being a widow. If any person dream his arms are hairy it denotes increase of riches.