Ducks
Ducks on clear water often touch fortunate journeys and domestic thrift — wild flight promising a brighter future, white ducks promising plenty. The dream may ask where smooth passage and abundance feel near, whether your private affairs swim undisturbed or someone is meddling at the water's edge, and what new home is taking shape.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ducks, 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 wild ducks on a clear stream of water, signifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea. White ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest.
To hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying out of plans.
To see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with your private affairs.
To see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you. It also denotes marriage, and children in the new home.
Fontaine, 1862
To hear ducks quacking, or to see these fowls in your dream, denotes that somebody is coming to see you who is hungry, or that you will shortly have a visitor in your family who will stop to dinner.