Sores
Sores — open, painful, slow to heal — often touch illness causing loss and mental distress, with your own wishes giving way to others' in dressing one. The dream may ask where something raw and untended is festering in your life or body, and whether the hurt you're seeing is asking for care before it costs you more in health and peace.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sores, 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 sores, denotes that illness will cause you loss and mental distress.
To dress a sore, foretells that your personal wishes and desires will give place to the pleasure of others.
To dream of an infant having a deep sore so that you can see the bone, denotes that distressing and annoying incidents will detract from your plans, and children will be threatened with contagion.
To dream of sores on yourself, portends early decay of health and impaired mentality. Sickness and unsatisfactory business will follow this dream.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of your body being covered with blotches, shows that a great fortune will fall to you. To have the arms full of sores, shows ill success in business.