Belly
The belly is appetite, nourishment, and increase, and the old books read it variably — a swollen, ailing belly marks sickness, while a fuller one can mark a growing family and estate. The dream tends to touch the body's centre of hunger and plenty, and to ask what is swelling or ailing at our core.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for belly, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly, it indicates desperate sickness.
To see anything moving on the belly, prognosticates humiliation and hard labor.
To see a healthy belly, denotes insane desires.
[21] See Abdomen.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream one's belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase; if one dreams his belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident; if any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be empty, he will become poor; if a girl dreams of a big belly, it is a sign of marriage.