Pirate
A pirate — the charming, lawless raider — often touches exposure to the evil designs of false friends, with unworthiness in a lover. The dream may ask who is plundering what's yours behind a roguish, appealing front, and whether someone you've trusted is deceiving you or luring you from safe ground under false pretenses.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pirate, 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 pirates, denotes that you will be exposed to the evil designs of false friends.
To dream that you are a pirate, denotes that you will fall beneath the society of friends and former equals.
For a young woman to dream that her lover is a pirate, is a sign of his unworthiness and deceitfulness. If she is captured by pirates, she will be induced to leave her home under false pretenses.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are captured by pirates is a sign you will travel in foreign countries and eventually make your fortune: if a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will marry a foreigner who, dying, will leave her a fortune.