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May Bugs

May Bugs

May bugs — blundering, clumsy beetles of early summer — often touch an ill-tempered companion where you'd hoped for a congenial one. The dream may ask where someone you expected warmth from is proving prickly and graceless, and how the gap between the company you wanted and the company you got is wearing on you.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for may bugs, 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 May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.