Chestnuts
Chestnuts often carry the texture of small comforts and the prick of a hidden cost — the burr that stings the hand reaching for the sweetness inside. The dream may ask what you're gathering close, and whether a pleasure you trust quietly conceals a sharper edge waiting beneath the shell.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chestnuts, 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 handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion through life.
Eating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness.
For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be fortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be fortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut burr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend.