Eel
An eel — slippery, alive, hard to hold — often touches fortune that depends on your grip: keep it, and you prosper; lose it, and it slides away. The dream may ask what elusive opportunity you're trying to grasp, whether you can keep hold of a thing that resists being held, and what pleasure or advantage keeps wriggling just out of reach.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for eel, 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 an eel is good if you can maintain your grip on him. Otherwise fortune will be fleeting.
To see an eel in clear water, denotes, for a woman, new but evanescent pleasures.
To see a dead eel, signifies that you will overcome your most maliciously inclined enemies. To lovers, the dream denotes an end to long and hazardous courtship by marriage.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of catching or handling eels, denotes that you will have good fortune, but difficulty. If the eels slip through your hands and escape from you, it shows that you will experience a loss.