Zebra
A zebra often carries the pull of something vivid but changeable — a fascination that flickers between dark and light and never quite settles. It can mark a stretch of shifting interests, and the quiet question of whether something chased so eagerly still satisfies once it is finally held.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for zebra, 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 a zebra, denotes that you will be interested in varying and fleeting enterprises.
To see one wild in his native country, foretells that you will pursue a chimerical fancy which will return you unsatisfactory pleasure upon possession.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of seeing a zebra, is a sign of a quarrel: if you imagine that somebody presented you with one of these animals, or that you have purchased it, it foretells, to a young man, that he will marry a rich but quarrelsome wife, and that she will be constantly annoying him by bragging of her property.