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Vitriol

Vitriol

Vitriol — corrosive acid, and bitter speech — often touches censuring an innocent person, with malice borne toward those who'd favour you if you throw it. The dream may ask where something caustic is being flung, and whether you're scalding someone undeserving or are the innocent object of another's burning hatred.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for vitriol, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

If you see vitriol in your dreams, it is a token of some innocent person being censured by you.

To throw it on people, shows you will bear malice towards parties who seek to favor you.

For a young woman to have a jealous rival throw it in her face, foretells that she will be the innocent object of some person's hatred. This dream for a business man, denotes enemies and much persecution.