Dirt
Dirt often touches the doubleness of earth — freshly turned soil around growing things speaks of thrift and health, while filth flung upon you speaks of slander. The dream may ask whether the ground you're handling is fertile or fouling, where someone may be trying to soil your good name, and what's clean enough to nurture and what isn't.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dirt, 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 seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees, denotes thrift and healthful conditions abound for the dreamer.
To see your clothes soiled with unclean dirt, you will be forced to save yourself from contagious diseases by leaving your home or submitting to the strictures of the law.
To dream that some one throws dirt upon you, denotes that enemies will try to injure your character.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of dirty dirt or mud, signifies that some one will speak ill of you. If it is clean sand or soil, and you do not get befouled with it, it is a sign of thrift and good fortune. If some one throws dirt on you, it foretells that you will be abused.