Worms
Worms — lowly, burrowing, decay-bound — often touch oppression by the low intriguing of disreputable persons, though using them as bait turns enemies to advantage, and garden worms can mean health. The dream may ask where something base and creeping is working against you, and whether you can rise above the lethargy they represent.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for worms, 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 worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons.
For a young woman to dream they crawl on her, foretells that her aspirations will always tend to the material. If she kills or throws them off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek to live in morality and spirituality.
To use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity you will use your enemies to good advantage.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of fish-worms, such as are dug in the garden, is a sign of health and good fortune; dreaming of any destructive worms foretells sickness and losses: if you dream that worms spin down from a tree and light upon you, it denotes difficulties and bad luck.