Pelican
A pelican — that feeds its young from its own breast — often touches disappointments mingled with successes, overcome if you catch one. The dream may ask where gains and letdowns are arriving tangled together, and whether you can master the disappointing currents without cruelly setting aside the rights of others to do it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pelican, 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 a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.
To catch one, you will be able to overcome disappointing influences.
To kill one, denotes that you will cruelly set aside the rights of others.
To see them flying, you are threatened with changes, which will impress you with ideas of uncertainty as to good.