Roman Candle
A Roman candle — bright bursts shooting upward — often touches the speedy attainment of coveted pleasures and positions, with disappointment if it proves empty. The dream may ask where a dazzling hope is about to flare into reach, and whether the prize you've long striven for will burst into glory or fizzle at the moment of grasping it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for roman candle, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see Roman candles while dreaming, is a sign of speedy attainment of coveted pleasures and positions.
To imagine that you have a loaded candle and find it empty, denotes that you will be disappointed with the possession of some object which you have long striven to obtain.
[193] See Rocket.