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Brothers

Brothers

Brothers in a dream gather the bonds of kin and shared blood, and seeing them full of energy marks cause to rejoice in their fortune or our own. The old books also read them as a sign of long life. The dream tends to touch the ties of family and likeness, and to ask how it stands between us and those we grew up beside.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

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

To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will have cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune; but if they are poor and in distress, or begging for assistance, you will be called to a deathbed soon, or some dire loss will overwhelm you or them.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream you see your brothers and sisters, signifies long life to the dreamer, but it portends a death in your family.