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Bronze medallion
Bronze

Bronze

A bronze statue in a dream — fixed, cast, unyielding — can mark failing to win the person one has set one's heart on, the figure held forever out of reach. The dream tends to touch the beloved made distant and immovable, and to ask whom or what we are pursuing that may, in the end, not be ours to have.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband.

If the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be involved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur. Disappointment to some person may follow the dream.

To dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued by envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will be uncertain and unsatisfactory.