Hyena
A hyena — scavenger of the margins, with its unsettling laugh — often touches disappointment, ill luck, and uncongenial company. The dream may ask where misfortune is dogging your undertakings, who around you feels predatory or mocking, and how busybodies or quarrelsome companions might set upon your reputation or your peace.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for hyena, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you see a hyena in your dreams, you will meet much disappointment and much ill luck in your undertakings, and your companions will be very uncongenial. If lovers have this dream, they will often be involved in quarrels.
If one attacks you, your reputation will be set upon by busybodies.