Canker
Canker — a spreading sore, a creeping decay — is an omen of evil in the old books, touching loss and treacherous companions. The dream tends to touch the rot that eats outward from a small place, and to ask what corruption is spreading quietly in our affairs or our company, and whether it can still be cut out before it spreads.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for canker, 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 seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil. It foretells death and treacherous companions for the young. Sorrow and loneliness to the aged.
Cankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either as head of State or stage life.
[31] The last definition is not consistent with other parts of this book, but I let it stand, as I find it among my automatic writings.