Chicken
Chickens often appear when we're tending to small, everyday anxieties — the modest concerns that peck at our attention. Whether they signal domestic comfort or a fear of being scattered and vulnerable, the dream's emotional weather tells you which meaning to trust.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chicken, 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 a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares, some of which of which will prove to your profit.
Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises, but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.
To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil.
To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a hen, or chicken, signifies losses in trade, and deceit in love.