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Back-bite

Back-bite

Back-biting in a dream is harm done behind the back — gossip, quiet betrayal. To join in can mark a turn from good to bad in our own affairs; to be its target, worry over those around us. The dream tends to ask where words are doing damage out of sight, and whether we are speaking them or stung by them.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for back-bite, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting.

For your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by servants and children.