Sheriff
A sheriff — the arm of the law come for you — often touches uneasiness over uncertain changes, with further illicit dealings if you escape but, oddly, good fortune if locked up. The dream may ask where a reckoning you'd rather dodge is looming, and whether facing the authority bearing down on you might turn out better than evading it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sheriff, 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 seeing a sheriff, denotes that you will suffer great uneasiness over the uncertain changes which loom up before you.
To imagine that you are elected sheriff or feel interested in the office, denotes that you will participate in some affair which will afford you neither profit nor honor.
To escape arrest, you will be able to further engage in illicit affairs.
[203] See Bailiff and Police.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream the sheriff is after you with a writ, or a warrant, and that you dodge and escape him, it is a sign of bad luck and losses; but if he arrests and locks you up in prison, it foretells that some good fortune is coming.