Straw
Straw — light, dry, easily scattered — often touches a life threatened with emptiness and failure, though burning piles signal prosperity and a bundle means abundance. The dream may ask where things feel hollow and insubstantial, and whether the dry stalks before you are kindling toward a prosperous blaze or scattering into emptiness.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for straw, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you dream of straw, your life is threatened with emptiness and failure.
To see straw piles burning, is a signal of prosperous times.
To feed straw to stock, foretells that you will make poor provisions for those depending upon you.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of a bundle of straw denotes abundance; if scattered about, poverty.