Garlic
Garlic often touches a pungent, practical rise — from penury toward prominence, from ideals toward a sensible view of life. The dream may ask where you're choosing usefulness over romance, what hidden things a sharp, clarifying pursuit might uncover, and whether a hard-headed choice is shaping the path you're on.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for garlic, 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 passing through a garlic patch, denotes a rise from penury to prominence and wealth. To a young woman, this denotes that she will marry from a sense of business, and love will not be considered.
To eat garlic in your dreams, denotes that you will take a sensible view of life and leave its ideals to take care of themselves.
Fontaine, 1862
For a man to dream he eats garlic, signifies he shall discover hidden secrets, and meet with some domestic jars; yet to dream he has it in the house is good.