Saltpeter
Saltpeter — sharp, preserving, used in powder — often touches a change in your living that adds loss to an unconquerable grief. The dream may ask where a shift in your circumstances is compounding a sorrow you can't shake, and whether the alteration underway is piling fresh loss onto a grief that already runs deeper than you can master.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for saltpeter, 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 saltpeter, denotes change in your living will add loss to some unconquerable grief.