Cuckoo
A cuckoo — the bird that lays its loss in another's nest — often touches the sudden ending of a happy time and word of a distant loved one. The dream may ask what contentment feels at risk of being upended, whose absence weighs on you, and what painful news you're half-bracing yourself to hear.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cuckoo, 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 a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy life caused by the downfall of a dear friend.
To dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death of some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family.