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Search across 2,348 dream symbols drawn from the older dream books and the public archive. Each entry carries an original interpretive note for the contemporary dreamer.

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Witch

Witch

A witch — wielder of hidden, disreputable power — often touches adventures of hilarious enjoyment that rebound to your mortification, with business prostration if they advance on you. The dream may ask where a thrilling but illicit allure is drawing you, and whether the bewitching pleasure will end in the shame it so often brings.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for witch, 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

To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it will eventually rebound to your mortification. Business will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you, home affairs may be disappointing.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of a witch foretells that you will leave your home and sojourn among strangers: if the witch attempts to injure you, it denotes that you will be dependent upon strangers for your support.