Canal
A canal's water, muddy and stagnant in a dream, marks sickness, disorder of the stomach, and the dark designs of enemies. The dream tends to touch the channel meant to flow that has gone foul and still, and to ask what in our life has stopped moving and begun to stagnate, and what ill-intent may be clouding the water.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for canal, 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 the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends sickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies. But if its waters are clear a placid life and the devotion of friends is before you.
For a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life and an adoring husband. If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear water and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life of ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction. But if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes of perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles.