Fan
A fan often touches small pleasant stirrings — cooling air, surprises, new acquaintance arriving on a light breeze. The dream may ask what fresh connection is fluttering toward you, whether an old attachment is cooling as a warm friend turns elsewhere, and what the gentle, flirtatious motion of a fan is quietly setting in train.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for fan, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a fan in your dreams, denotes pleasant news and surprises are awaiting you in the near future. For a young woman to dream of fanning herself, or that some one is fanning her, gives promise of a new and pleasing acquaintances; if she loses an old fan, she will find that a warm friend is becoming interested in other women.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you see your sweetheart fanning herself, signifies that a stranger will step in some fine day and cut you out. If a maid dreams that her beau presents her with a fan, or offers to fan her, it is a sign he will attempt to take improper liberties with her.