Barber
The barber shapes and trims what shows of us, and in dreams the figure often marks success won through close attention and steady effort — though the older books also read it as touching loss. The dream tends to ask how we are tending our appearance to the world, and what care it is costing us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for barber, 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 a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling and close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber, foretells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a barber, denotes losses.