Geese
Geese often touch a noisy doubleness — quacking that warns of loss, swimming that signals growing fortune, grassy ease that promises success. The dream may ask whether the flock around you is alarmed or contentedly feeding, what increase or trouble their clamour hints at, and how to read agitated cackling against the quiet of plenty.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for geese, 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 that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese, denotes a death in your family. To see them swimming, denotes that your fortune is gradually increasing.
To see them in grassy places, denotes assured success. If you see them dead, you will suffer loss and displeasure.
For a lover, geese denotes the worthiness of his affianced.
If you are picking them, you will come into an estate. To eat them, denotes that your possessions are disputed.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of these birds is generally a good omen: if you see them quietly feeding it denotes success and pleasure in your undertakings; but if they are alarmed and cackling, it foretells trouble and annoyance, but yet nothing that will seriously affect you.