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Cows

Cows

Cows waiting to be milked often touch patient abundance — a quiet promise of hopes and desires fulfilled in their season. The dream may ask what nourishment and plenty you sense gathering, where prosperity is slowly accumulating, and whether you trust the steady, unhurried rhythm by which good things ripen toward you.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cows, 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 seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant fulfilment of hopes and desires.

[45] See Cattle.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream of seeing large herds of cows, it predicts prosperity and wealth. To see one cow in your dream is a sign of a good piece of luck of some kind. If a young girl dreams of cows, it is a sign she will marry a rich man, and have numerous children.