Walnut
A walnut — sweet meat in a hard shell — often touches prolific joys and favours, but bitter, regrettable collapse if you crack a decayed one. The dream may ask where a hard exterior is guarding something rich within, and whether the prize you're reaching for is sound and full or, once opened, rotten with disappointment.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for walnut, 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 walnuts, is an omen significant of prolific joys and favors.
To dream that you crack a decayed walnut, denotes that your expectations will end in bitterness and regretable collapse.
For a young woman to dream that she has walnut stain on her hands, foretells that she will see her lover turn his attention to another, and she will entertain only regrets for her past indiscreet conduct.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of them denotes riches and happiness; to the lover, success and a good tempered sweetheart.