Turkey
Turkeys often arrive in dreams as symbols of abundance — not merely material, but the kind that gathers slowly through steady work and attention. Perhaps the dream asks whether you're ready to receive what you've cultivated, or whether pride might complicate the harvest.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for turkey, 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 turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business, and favorable crops to the farmer.
To see them dressed for the market, denotes improvement in your affairs.
To see them sick, or dead, foretells that stringent circumstances will cause your pride to suffer.
To dream you eat turkey, foretells some joyful occasion approaching.
To see them flying, denotes a rapid transit from obscurity to prominence. To shoot them as game, is a sign that you will unscrupulously amass wealth.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of seeing a flock of turkeys denotes to a tradesman, or a farmer, that he will have a transaction which will bring him in a considerable sum in ready money: if a lover who is about to be married dreams of turkeys, he will find that his sweetheart has got a marriage portion in ready money.