Assassin
The assassin is sudden, intended harm — danger that comes for us deliberately. To receive the blow can mark trials not yet surmounted; to witness one can carry a darker foreboding. The dream tends to touch our deepest fears of being targeted, and to ask what threat feels aimed directly at us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for assassin, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount all your trials.
To see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains, portends that misfortune will come to the dreamer.
WHAT'S IN A DREAM. 41 To see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses may befall you through secret enemies.