Bellows
To work a bellows in a dream — coaxing flame to life with breath and effort — marks a struggle that ends in triumph over poverty and hard fate through perseverance. The dream tends to touch the labour of keeping a fire alive, and to ask where steady effort is slowly turning the odds in our favour.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bellows, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance.
To dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you.
To hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help of powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have wasted energies under misguiding impulses.