Saffron
Saffron — costly, golden, but here a warning — often touches false hopes and bitter enemies secretly interfering with your plans, with family quarrels in the tea. The dream may ask where you're nursing expectations that won't hold, and whether you can see the hidden opposition before your false hopes collapse around you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for saffron, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Saffron seen in a dream warns you that you are entertaining false hopes, as bitter enemies are interfering secretly with your plans for the future.
To drink a tea made from saffron, foretells that you will have quarrels and alienations in your family.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of gathering saffron, or of drinking a decoction of the herb, is a sign of health and wealth: if the flowers that you gather look clear and healthy, it foretells that you will get just so much gold.