Tannery
A tannery — where hides are cured into leather — often touches contagion, illness, and trade loss, though it can signal health and riches, with distasteful work if you're the tanner. The dream may ask where a hard process is turning raw material into something durable, and whether the unpleasant labour sustains those who depend on you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tannery, 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 a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness. Loss in trade is portended.
To dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work which is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you.
To buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful in your undertakings, but will not make many friends.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of being in a tannery is a sign of health and riches: if a girl dreams that her beau is a tanner, she will probably get a good husband, and one who is well off, and will live to a good old age.