Onions
Onions often point to the sharp, stinging quality of competition or envy—the eye-watering realness of conflict that asks whether you're willing to stay in the kitchen. Sometimes they suggest small gains earned through patience, or the question of what you're prepared to endure for success that tastes both bitter and earned.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for onions, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Seeing quantities of onions in your dreams, represents the amount of spite and envy that you will meet, by being successful.
If you eat them, you will overcome all opposition.
If you see them growing, there will be just enough of rivalry in your affairs, to make things interesting.
Cooked onions, denote placidity and small gains in business.
To dream that you are cutting onions and feel the escaping juice in your eyes, denotes that you will be defeated by your rivals.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of this vegetable, denotes both good and bad luck: if you are eating them, you will soon receive some money; your sweetheart will be faithful, but cross, and you will be engaged in some dispute; if you are throwing onions away, it is the forerunner of mischief; in love, quarrels; in trade, opposition.