Mercury
Mercury — quick, shifting, and poisonous in excess — often touches unhappy changes under the constant pressure of enemies. The dream may ask where a restless, toxic influence is forcing unwanted change on you, and how the steady oppression of those working against you is unsettling what felt stable.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mercury, 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 mercury, is significant of unhappy changes through the constant oppression of enemies. For a woman to be suffering from mercurial poison, foretells she will be deserted by and separated from her family.