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Barn

Barn

A barn well filled with ripe grain and fat stock is an omen of plenty — security stored against want, the harvest safely in. Empty, it carries the reverse. The dream tends to touch provision and what we have laid by, and to ask whether our stores are full or whether the granary stands bare.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

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

If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity. If empty, the reverse may be expected.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream that you are in a barn that is well stored with hay and grain, it predicts that you will marry rich, or else inherit land. If the barn be empty, it will be the reverse of this, or else you will meet with a loss.