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Cloven Foot

Cloven Foot

A cloven foot — long the mark of something disguised and dangerous — often touches the sense that beneath a fair surface, something isn't what it claims to be. The dream may ask where you feel a hidden ill, and whether a stranger's easy friendliness conceals an intention you'd do well to mistrust.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cloven foot, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of a cloven foot, portends some unusual ill luck is threatening you, and you will do well to avoid the friendship of strange persons.