Katydids
Katydids — the night-callers whose name repeats their argument — often touch misfortune and unusual dependence on others. The dream may ask where you feel reliant on people more than you'd like, what surprising events the insistent sound is heralding, and whether a quarrelsome, repetitive note in a close bond is wearing at your peace.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for katydids, 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 hearing katydids, is a prognostic of misfortune and unusual dependence on others. If any sick person ask you what they are, foretells there will be surprising events in your present and future.
For a woman to see them, signifies she will have a quarrelsome husband or lover.