Tar
Tar — black, sticky, hard to wash off — often touches pitfalls and the designs of treacherous enemies, with sickness and grief if it's on your hands, though some read travel by water. The dream may ask where a clinging, fouling trouble threatens to catch you, and whether you can avoid the sticky trap laid by those who mean you harm.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tar, 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 see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs of treacherous enemies.
To have tar on your hands or clothing, denotes sickness and grief.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of tar is a sign you will travel by water: if you dream you get it on your hands or clothes, it shows that you will have difficulties; and to imagine you accidentally seat yourself on tar, and get stuck to the seat, foretells that you will be detained against your will in some foreign country.