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Beef

Beef

Beef in a dream turns sharply on its state — raw and bloody, the old books read it as a warning toward illness and hurt, a thing to be on guard against. The dream tends to touch the rawness of the body and its vulnerabilities, and to ask what needs care and watchfulness in our physical wellbeing.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for beef, 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 raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind.

To see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you. Loss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under pleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business, if otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.