Deer
Deer often carry the feeling of gentleness under threat—something innocent in you that moves carefully through a world that might startle or harm it. Perhaps the dream asks whether you are the deer, the forest, or the one who watches, and what safety or wilderness each role requires.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for deer, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
This is a favorable dream, denoting pure and deep friendships for the young and a quiet and even life for the married.
To kill a deer, denotes that you will be hounded by enemies. For farmers, or business people, to dream of hunting deer, denotes failure in their respective pursuits.
Fontaine, 1862
If you see these animals in your dream, it shows that you will hear some unexpected news—no matter what—perhaps a marriage, a death, an accident, or a legacy has been left to you; or that some one is in love with you.