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Search across 2,348 dream symbols drawn from the older dream books and the public archive. Each entry carries an original interpretive note for the contemporary dreamer.

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Bantam medallion
Bantam

Bantam

The bantam is the small, spirited fowl, and in dreams it often marks a fortune that is modest yet enough — contentment in little. Sickly or storm-exposed birds, though, can shadow that ease. The dream tends to ask whether we can be satisfied with the smaller portion, and what threatens our quiet sufficiency.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bantam, 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

To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will be small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly, or exposed to wintry storms, your interests will be impaired.