Crabs
Crabs — sidewise, armoured, hard to pin down — often touch tangled affairs that demand your soundest judgment to unknot. The dream may ask which complicated situation is moving in ways you can't predict, where progress feels indirect, and whether patience or a sharper grip will serve the long, difficult work ahead.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for crabs, 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 crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.
Fontaine, 1862
Signify you will quarrel with a friend. To the married, this dream is a sign of separation.