Pears
Pears — sweet when ripe, harsh when green — often touch poor success and failing health in the eating, but promising fortune in admiring golden fruit on the tree. The dream may ask where something is ripening, or not, in your circumstances, and whether the fruit you're reaching for is mellow with fortune or still sour with misfortune.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pears, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.
To admire the golden fruit upon graceful trees, denotes that fortune will wear a more promising aspect than formerly.
To dream of gathering them, denotes pleasant surprises will follow quickly upon disappointment.
To preserve them, denotes that you will take reverses philosophically.
Baking them, denotes insipid love and friendships.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of ripe, mellow pears, portends elevation in life, riches, honors, and constancy in love. If a woman with child dream of them, she will have a daughter. To dream of unripe, choke-pears, is a sign of misfortunes, and inconstancy in love.