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Mud medallion
Mud

Mud

Mud — that fouls and clings — often touches lost confidence in friendships, disturbances at home, and a reputation under assault if it's on your clothes. The dream may ask where you feel dragged through something soiling, and whether the calumny being slung at your good name can be scraped off before it stains.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mud, 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 that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances in family circles.

To see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend or employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops and unsatisfactory gains from stock.

To see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed. To scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of getting covered with mud by having it splashed over you, is a sign that you will be belied and talked about.