Ticks
Ticks — bloodsucking parasites latched to the skin — often touch impoverished circumstances and ill health, with treacherous enemies if you mash one. The dream may ask where small, latched-on drains are quietly bleeding your resources or health, and whether enemies are working by foul means to fasten onto what's yours.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ticks, 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 you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished circumstances and ill health. Hasty journeys to sick beds may be made.
To mash a tick on you, denotes that you will be annoyed by treacherous enemies.
To see in your dreams large ticks on stock, enemies are endeavoring to get possession of your property by foul means.