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Search across 2,348 dream symbols drawn from the older dream books and the public archive. Each entry carries an original interpretive note for the contemporary dreamer.

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Incantation

Incantation

Incantation often touches words used to compel or bind — unpleasantness stirred between partners, or dissembling among friends. The dream may ask where you're trying to work some spell over a relationship, whose smooth words might be a kind of false enchantment, and what discord beneath the surface the muttered charm is hinting at.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for incantation, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream you are using incantations, signifies unpleasantness between husband and wife, or sweethearts. To hear others repeating them, implies dissembling among your friends.