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Polka

Polka

The polka — a brisk, bouncing dance — often touches pleasant occupations. The dream may ask where lively, lighthearted activity is enlivening your days, and whether you can let yourself move through your work and pastimes with the quick, cheerful step the dance suggests, finding gladness in the very briskness of doing.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

To dream of dancing the polka, denotes pleasant occupations.

[165] See Dancing.