Bag Pipe
Bagpipes were held a good omen—unless the music turned harsh and the player stood in rags, and then the note soured. The sound carried memory and belonging, but its quality was the warning. Sometimes the dream asks what call to tradition still plays in you, and whether it reaches you clear or strained.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bag pipe, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of bagpipes, signifies trouble, contention, and loss of a lawsuit.
Anonymous, 1894
Bagpipes.—To dream of this instrument of Scottish music indicates that the dreamer will experience great trouble, and that he will labor to little purpose; in love, it denotes that the marriage state will be full of cares, and that you will in it experience much poverty and distress.