Tail
A tail — the trailing end of a beast — often touches unusual annoyance where pleasure seemed assured, with misfortune through carelessness if you cut one off. The dream may ask where the very last part of something is causing trouble, and whether a vexation is surfacing at the tail end of an affair you'd assumed safely in hand.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tail, 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 only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated where pleasures seemed assured.
To cut off the tail of an animal, denotes that you will suffer misfortune by your own carelessness.
To dream that you have the tail of a beast grown on you, denotes that your evil ways will cause you untold distress, and strange events will cause you perplexity.