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Itch

Itch

An itch often touches a persistent irritation you're driven to avoid or scratch — fear of distressing contact, harsh treatment, the urge to deflect blame. The dream may ask what nagging discomfort won't leave you, where you're tempted to escape it or pass it to someone else, and what relief or trouble the scratching brings.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for itch, 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 see persons with the itch, and you endeavor to escape contact, you will stand in fear of distressing results when your endeavors will bring pleasant success.

If you dream you have the itch yourself, you will be harshly used, and will defend yourself by incriminating others. For a young woman to have this dream, omens she will fall into dissolute companionship.

To dream that you itch, denotes unpleasant avocations.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream that you have the itch, or that your body itches, shows that you will shortly receive money.