Fingers
Fingers often touch capability and connection — the hands' fine instruments, vulnerable when cut or soiled, renowned when fair and white. The dream may ask where you feel your means of grasping and making are wounded or whole, what trouble or what requited love your hands signify, and how your power to do and to give is faring.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for fingers, 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 your fingers soiled or scratched, with the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and suffering. You will despair of making your way through life.
To see beautiful hands, with white fingers, denotes that your love will be requited and that you will become renowned for your benevolence.
To dream that your fingers are cut clean off, you will lose wealth and a legacy by the intervention of enemies.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good omen; you will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind and true.