Cruelty
Cruelty — shown to you or by you — often touches the wounding edges of dealings gone wrong. The dream may ask where you feel harshly used, where a hard or punishing task you'd set for others might rebound to your own loss, and what disappointment is sharpening into something colder than it needs to be.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cruelty, 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 cruelty being shown you, foretells you will have trouble and disappointment in some dealings. If it is shown to others, there will be a disagreeable task set for others by you, which will contribute to you own loss.