Execution
An execution often touches dread of a final, irreversible reckoning — yet a miraculous reprieve can turn it toward triumph over enemies. The dream may ask where you fear an ending carried out against you, whether others' carelessness puts you at risk, and what unexpected intervention might overturn a sentence you thought was sealed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for execution, 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 an execution, signifies that you will suffer some misfortune from the carelessness of others.
To dream that you are about to be executed, and some miraculous intervention occurs, denotes that you will overthrow enemies and succeed in gaining wealth.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Hanged and Gallows.) To dream of seeing a man hanged denotes that some friend or relative will shortly come to good fortune. If you dream that you yourself are going to be hanged, you may safely calculate on good luck for that year: if you are in business you will be successful.