Brood
A fowl with her brood in a dream gathers the image of many small charges, and the old books read it as cares varied and irksome, a household full of claims. The dream tends to touch the weight and warmth of having many to tend, and to ask what we are mothering, and how the multiplied small duties sit on us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for brood, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be in your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly.
Brood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.