Rat-trap
A rat-trap — set to catch the intruder — often touches being victimized and robbed if you fall in, but the warning to outwit enemies if you set one. The dream may ask where a snare is laid that you might blunder into, and whether you can see the designs of those plotting against you clearly enough to avoid it, or turn the tables.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rat-trap, 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 falling into a rat-trap, denotes that you will be victimized and robbed of some valuable object.
To see an empty one, foretells the absence of slander or competition.
A broken one, denotes that you will be rid of unpleasant associations.
To set one, you will be made aware of the designs of enemies, but the warning will enable you to outwit them.
[185] See Mouse-trap.