Boa-Constrictor
The boa-constrictor crushes slowly, and the old books read dreaming of it almost as darkly as dreaming of the devil — stormy times, bad fortune, disenchantment. The dream tends to touch a slow, encircling pressure, something tightening around us by degrees, and to ask what is squeezing the life from our hopes.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for boa-constrictor, 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 this is just about the same as to dream of the devil; it indicates stormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will follow. To kill one is good.