Madstone
A madstone — the folk remedy pressed to a poisoned wound — often touches a desperate effort to shield yourself from enemies closing in. The dream may ask where you're straining to draw the venom out of a threatening situation, and whether the measures you're reaching for can hold off the defeat you sense gathering.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for madstone, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a madstone applied to a wound from the fangs of some mad animal, denotes that you will endeavor, to the limits of your energy, to shield self from the machinations of enemies, which will soon envelop you with the pall of dishonorable defeat.