Thumb
A thumb carries themes of capability and agency — the part of you that grasps, creates, or steers your days. Pain or absence here often reflects a time when control feels slippery, while unusual size may hint at power swelling or shrinking in ways you hadn't noticed.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for thumb, 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 a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite of artful persons and uncertain fortune.
If you are suffering from a sore thumb, you will lose in business, and your companions will prove disagreeable. To dream that you have no thumb, implies destitution and loneliness. If it seems unnaturally small, you will enjoy pleasure for a time. If abnormally large, your success will be rapid and brilliant.
A soiled thumb indicates gratification of loose desires. If the thumb has a very long nail, you are liable to fall into evil through seeking strange pleasures.
Fontaine, 1862
If a girl dreams that her beau hurts her by pinching her thumb, it is a sign that if she marries him she will have to get her own living, and help to support him besides: for a man to dream of losing his thumb, or of an injury to it, foretells poverty—on the contrary, to dream of a big thumb denotes much wealth.