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Jew's-harp medallion
Jew's-harp

Jew's-harp

A Jew's-harp — the small twanging mouth-instrument — often touches a slight improvement in affairs, or falling in love with a stranger. The dream may ask where a modest, humble uplift is reaching you, what unfamiliar person might be drawing your heart, and whether a small, plain pleasure signals that things are starting to turn.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for jew's-harp, 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 of a Jew's-harp, foretells you will experience a slight improvement in your affairs. To play one, is a sign that you will fall in love with a stranger.