Sheep
Sheep often carry the feeling of abundance held collectively — prosperity that arrives not through conquest but through patient tending. When they appear scraggy or struggling, the dream may be asking what has been neglected in your care, what quiet resource feels depleted or overlooked.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sheep, 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 shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you.
To see flocks of sheep, there will be much rejoicing among farmers, and other trades will prosper.
To see them looking scraggy and sick, you will be thrown into despair by the miscarriage of some plan, which promised rich returns.
To eat the flesh of sheep, denotes that ill-natured persons will outrage your feelings.
[200] See Lamb and Ram.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of large flocks of sheep, is a sign of thrift and abundance, particularly to farmers, to whom the omen promises large crops: if many of the sheep have young lambs, it foretells domestic happiness and an excellent crop of children.