Hogs
Hogs often touch appetite, increase, and the rough work of accumulation — fat ones bringing brisk, safe dealings, lean ones bringing vexation. The dream may ask where you're fattening your holdings, what coarse but profitable labour is building your store, and whether the grunting plenty is thriving or squealing toward disappointment.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for hogs, 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 fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes in business and safe dealings. Lean hogs predict vexatious affairs and trouble with servants and children.
To see a sow and litter of pigs, denotes abundant crops to the farmer, and advance in the affairs of others.
To hear hogs squealing, denotes unpleasant news from absent friends, and foretells disappointment by death, or failure to realize the amounts you expected in deals of importance.
To dream of feeding your own hogs, denotes an increase in your personal belongings.
To dream that you are dealing in hogs, you will accumulate considerable property, but you will have much rough work to perform.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of well-kept and happy-looking hogs is a good omen, as it foretells luck and success: but if you see lean and hungry-looking hogs squealing, it shows that any speculation you may enter into about that time will not be of much account if it does not result in a loss.