Sting
A sting — a sudden venomous prick — often touches a foreboding of evil and unhappiness, with sorrow and remorse from over-confidence. The dream may ask where a small but poisonous hurt is reaching you, and whether a misplaced trust is exposing you to the kind of sharp, regretted wound that follows letting your guard down.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sting, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness.
For a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow and remorse from over-confidence in men.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of being stung by a bee or wasp, foretells an injury by unjust and scandalous reports: a young lady who dreams that a bee stings her, will probably have her chastity questioned.