Mustard
Mustard — pungent, burning — often touches success and wealth in the growing green crop, but bitter repentance of hasty action in the burning seed. The dream may ask where a sharp, stinging consequence is following something you did too quickly, and whether the heat in your mouth is a warning against more rash haste.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mustard, 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 mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer, and to the seafaring it prognosticates wealth.
To eat mustard seed and feel the burning in your mouth, denotes that you will repent bitterly some hasty action, which has caused you to suffer.
To dream of eating green mustard cooked, indicates the lavish waste of fortune, and mental strain.
For a young woman to eat newly grown mustard, foretells that she will sacrifice wealth for personal desires.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of mustard or mustard seed, is a bad omen, and foretells sickness and perhaps death. To dream you eat mustard, is a sign your sweetheart or lover is false to you. To married persons this dream indicates domestic quarrels.