Gooseberries
Gooseberries often appear when effort and outcome feel mismatched — the tart fruit suggesting small disappointments or pleasures not quite ripe for enjoyment. Sometimes they speak to fertility or abundance, though their sharpness asks whether what you're reaching for is truly ready to be tasted.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for gooseberries, 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 gathering gooseberries, is a sign of happiness after trouble, and a favorable indication of brighter prospects in one's business affairs.
If you are eating green gooseberries, you will make a mistake in your course to pleasure, and be precipitated into the vertex of sensationalism. Bad results are sure to follow the tasting of green gooseberries.
To see gooseberries in a dream, foretells you will escape some dreaded work. For a young woman to eat them, foretells she will be slightly disappointed in her expectations.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of gooseberries indicate many children, chiefly sons, and the accomplishment of your present pursuits. To the maiden they foretell a cheerful husband; they also denote happiness in marriage, and success in trade.