Charity
To give charity in a dream marks being harassed with appeals from the poor, the strain that generosity can bring; for the rich, the old books even read it as touching loss of fortune. The dream tends to touch the weight and complexity of giving, and to ask what claims are being made on our means, and how we hold the call to help.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for charity, 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 giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed with supplications for help from the poor and your business will be at standstill.
To dream of giving to charitable institutions, your right of possession to paving property will be disputed. Worries and ill health will threaten you.
For young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be annoyed by deceitful rivals. To dream that you are an object of charity, omens that you will succeed in life after hard times with misfortunes.
Fontaine, 1862
For a rich person to dream that he is charitable, signifies loss of fortune; if a lady dreams it, she will bestow her affections on an unworthy person.