Shark
A shark swimming through your dream often carries the weight of something formidable—a threat you sense but cannot yet name, or power that both fascinates and unsettles. Whether it circles as danger or swims past as unexpected protection, the feeling it leaves behind may matter more than what it does.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shark, 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 sharks, denotes formidable enemies.
To see a shark pursuing and attacking you, denotes that unavoidable reverses will sink you into dispondent foreboding.
To see them sporting in clear water, foretells that while you are basking in the sunshine of women and prosperity, jealousy is secretly, but surely, working you disquiet, and unhappy fortune.
To see a dead one, denotes reconciliation and renewed prosperity.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of seeing a shark in the water, is an excellent omen, as it foretells that you will escape a great danger that menaces you: if you dream of capturing the shark, you will soon thereafter get a big lump of money.