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Olives

Olives

Olives — gathered in good company, eaten in peace — often touch favourable business, delightful surprises, and contentment with faithful friends, though a broken bottle spoils pleasure. The dream may ask where shared, fruitful harvest is bringing you ease, and whether you can savour the conviviality without some careless break souring it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for olives, 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

Gathering olives with a merry band of friends, foretells favorable results in business, and delightful surprises.

If you take them from bottles, it foretells conviviality

To break a bottle of olives, indicates disappointments on the eve of pleasure.

To eat them, signifies contentment and faithful friends.