Trap
Traps in dreams often point to the schemes we set—or the ones closing around us—revealing both our cunning and our vulnerability. Whether you're the one setting the snare or caught within it, the dream asks: what are you trying to control, and what quiet fear might be tightening its grip?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for trap, 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 setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs
If you are caught in a trap, you will be outwitted by your opponents.
If you catch game in a trap, you will flourish in whatever vocation you may choose.
To see an empty trap, there will be misfortune in the immediate future.
An old or broken trap, denotes failure in business, and sickness in your family may follow.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of setting a trap to catch rats or mice, is a sign, to a girl, that she will receive the attentions of a dishonest lover: if she dreams of catching any, she will probably marry a great scamp, or be seduced by one.