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Mustache

Mustache

A mustache — the cultivated mark of male vanity — often touches egotism and effrontery costing you a poor inheritance, or a woman's virtue endangered in admiring one. The dream may ask where pride in appearance is leading you astray, and whether you'd do better to shave off the bravado and turn back toward honour.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mustache, 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 have a mustache, denotes that your egotism and effrontery will cause you a poor inheritance in worldy{sic} goods, and you will betray women to their sorrow.

If a woman dreams of admiring a mustache, her virtue is in danger, and she should be mindful of her conduct.

If a man dreams that he has his mustache shaved, he will try to turn from evil companions and pleasures, and seek to reinstate himself in former positions of honor.