Flies
Flies often touch contagion and the swarming presence of small enemies — sickness, unhappiness, the buzz of those who mean you ill. The dream may ask what petty nuisances or insincere people are gathering around you, whether someone's affection is thinner than it seems, and how the persistent pests might be cleared by your own ingenuity.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for flies, 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 flies, denotes sickness and contagious maladies. Also that enemies surround you. To a young woman this dream is significant of unhappiness. If she kills or exterminates flies, she will reinstate herself in the love of her intended by her ingenuity.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many enemies; it also denotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares but little about you; to dream you kill them is a very good omen; it denotes success in love and trade.