Lice
Lice — small, clinging, infesting — often touch waking worry, distress, and offensive ailments hard to be rid of. The dream may ask what petty, persistent troubles are crawling through your days, where something low and irritating has taken hold, and whether the swarming vexations are a sign to clean house in body, habits, or company.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lice, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress. It often implies offensive ailments.
Lice on stock, foretells famine and loss.
To have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself unpleasantly with your acquaintances.
To dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you will cultivate morbidity.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of lice denotes sickness and poverty.