{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_53879/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_53879","id":"gutenberg_53879","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879","summary":null,"tags":["Category: How To ...","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Dreams","Fortune-telling"],"text":"[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n                       Universal Handbook, No. 2.\n\n                                   THE\n                          Witches\u2019 Dream Book;\n                                   AND\n                             FORTUNE TELLER.\n\n        EMBRACING FULL AND CORRECT RULES OF DIVINATION CONCERNING\n            DREAMS AND VISIONS, FORETELLING OF FUTURE EVENTS,\n         THEIR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION TO PHYSIOGNOMY, PALMISTRY,\n                  MOLES, CARDS, &C.; TOGETHER WITH THE\n                 APPLICATION AND OBSERVANCE OF TALISMEN\n                    CHARMS, SPELLS AND INCANTATIONS.\n\n                              ILLUSTRATED.\n\n                                NEW YORK:\n                            HENRY J. WEHMAN.\n                                  1885.\n\n                  COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY HENRY J. WEHMAN.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n    \u201cTo sleep, perchance to dream.\u201d--HAMLET.\n\n\nThis introductory page is inserted, not with the purpose of reviewing the\ncontents of the book--a custom, to our mind, more honored in the breach\nthan the observance--but merely to inform those who look within the pages,\nthe seekers after knowledge concerning the laws of Oneirology and the\nbases of Fortune Telling, that they will find much to instruct, interest\nand amuse. While avoiding undue prolixity, the subjects are\ncomprehensively and exhaustively treated, proving it to be more valuable\nas a book of reference than any other of similar character ever before\ngiven to the public.\n\n\n\n\nDREAMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION.\n\n\nAlthough much prejudice exists as to the origination of Dreams and the\nvarious interpretations given them, the fact is incontrovertible that they\nhave, in all ages and among all nations, borne a conspicuous part in\nshaping destinies. Both sacred and profane history is replete with dreams\nwhich have had more or less influence upon the lives of the dreamers.\nInnumerable are the instances in which have been prefigured in dreams\noccurrences that have actually taken place, and many dangers have been\naverted by heeding warnings given during sleep. Of course it would be\nunwise to place full credence in the prognostications of all dreams, and\nequally so to totally disregard them. To both the educated and the\nilliterate, dreams, of whatever nature, point a moral; and those who\nheedlessly ignore their lessons often experience cause for regret.\nAppended will be found a succinct compendium of the scientific and\nphilosophic researches of many gifted in the art of divination.\n\n=Acquaintance.=--To dream that you fight with them signifies distraction,\nespecially if the person so dreaming be sick. =Adversary.=--To dream that\nyou receive obstruction from him, shows that you will dispatch your\nbusiness speedily. =Adultery.=--For a person to dream that they have\ncommitted it, shows they will meet great contentions and disputes.\n=Almonds.=--To dream one sees or eats almonds, signifies difficulties and\ntrouble. =Alms.=--To dream that they are begged of you, and you deny to\ngive them, shows want and misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give\nthem freely is a sign of joy and gladness. =Anchor.=--To dream you see\none, signifies great assurance and certain joys. =Altar.=--To dream you\nuncover or discover an altar, betokens joy and gladness. =Angel.=--To\ndream you see angels is good, but to speak with or call upon them is evil.\n=Anger.=--To dream that you have been provoked to anger shows that you\nhave powerful enemies. =Angling.=--To dream that you are angling, betokens\nmuch affliction and trouble in something which you desire to get.\n=Apes.=--To dream you have seen or had anything to do with them, signifies\nmalicious, weak, strange and secret enemies; also a malefactor and\ndeceiver. =Apparition.=--To dream you see an apparition, or spirit,\nclothed in white, signifies deceit and temptation to sin. =Adam.=--To\ndream you see this father of men, this inhabitant of Paradise, who was\nbetrayed by Eve into sin, is a happy omen. If he looks pleasant, be sure\nyou will succeed in whatever you undertake. If he looks displeased and\nangry, then you must use great caution in all your dealings, for some\nmischief is intended you, but you will get the better of it. Be careful,\nif he speaks to you, to mind what he says, and observe it as faithfully as\nyou possibly can. =Absence.=--\n\n    To dream of any absent friends,\n    Good news of them, or ill, portends;\n    But if at thy bedside they seem,\n    Their deaths, perhaps, may solve thy dream.\n\n=Abuse.=--To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a certain sign\nsome dispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; therefore after such a dream you should be particularly careful\nof yourself and be as gentle and mild as possible, that you may not give\nthose with whom you have dealings any advantage over you. =Acorns.=--\n\n    To dream of acorns do not slight,\n    It promises both strength and might.\n\n=Ague.=--To dream you have an ague, denotes that you are in danger of\nbecoming a drunkard and a glutton. To dream your sweetheart has an ague,\nis a lucky omen; it shows you are beloved, and that you will be happy with\nthe object of your wishes, but never very rich. =Apparel.=--Nothing more\ndemonstrates the events that are about to happen to you, than dreaming of\nwearing apparel; but almost every color has a different interpretation,\nand must depend on its being new or old, its fitting you, or being too big\nor too little. To dream you are dressed in white, is a sure token of\nsuccess in the first object you undertake, and that you will be successful\nin love, and that your sweetheart is of good temper and amiable\ndisposition. To dream that you are dressed in green denotes that you are\nabout to take a journey to your advantage, and that your sweetheart\nprefers you to all other lovers. To dream that you are dressed in black is\nan unlucky omen. To dream that you are dressed in blue, denotes happiness.\nIf you dream you are dressed in scarlet, you are thereby warned of some\nvery heavy calamity. To dream you are dressed in yellow, is rather lucky\nthan otherwise. To dream you are dressed in crimson, indicates that you\nwill live to a good old age, and be neither very fortunate or unfortunate\nthrough life; it denotes a dispute between landlord and tenant, which will\nbe settled amicably to the advantage of the latter. To dream that you are\ndressed in a variety of colors, denotes a variety of fortunes is about to\nattend you. To dream you are fashionably dressed and in good company, is\nvery good for the dreamer; he will rise considerably above his present\ncondition. To dream your clothes fit you well and are comfortable to the\nseason of the year, is favorable and denotes success. To dream your\nclothes do not fit you, and that they are not suitable to the season,\ndenotes death of some friend and a loss by fire. To dream you see another\ndressed in any of the modes above described, forebodes to the person\ndreamt of the same fortunes. To dream you are dressed in new clothes, is a\nvery favorable omen; it portends honors and success to your undertakings.\n=Apparitions.=--To dream you see a ghost, goblin, spectre and such kind of\nthings, is of a very unfortunate nature; if you are in love, it is a\ncertain sign of your not being beloved in return; depend upon it some one\nis about to deceive you and that you are friendly with one who is your\nmost inveterate enemy. =Arms.=--To dream your arms are withered is a\ncertain sign that you will decay in health and fortune. To dream they are\ngrowing strong signifies that some unexpected success will attend you. To\ndream that your right arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some male\nrelation. To dream your left arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some\nnear female relative. For a married woman to dream her arms have grown\nlusty and strong, denotes that she will have many male children, that her\nhusband will arrive at public honors and will grow rich and make many\nfriends. =Apples.=--To dream of apples betokens long life and success, a\nboy to a woman with child, faithfulness in your sweetheart and riches by\ntrade. =Apricots.=--To dream of apricots, denotes health and prosperity, a\nspeedy marriage, dutiful children and success in love. =Asses.=--To dream\nyou see jackasses, is a good sign. To dream you are riding on an ass, is\nthe forerunner of some foolish quarrel. To dream that you are driving an\nass, denotes that you will fall into some trouble, of which you will get\nthe better. To dream an ass runs after you, denotes that some slander will\nbe raised against you by some foolish persons, who will be themselves the\nvictims of the scandal raised against you. To dream you see an ass fall\nloaded, is a very good import and shows that you will be the founder of\nyour own fortune. =Attorneys.=--To dream that you are speaking with them,\nshows hindrance of business and that a man will have little success in his\naffairs. =Armed Men.=--To see them in your dream, is a good sign, and\ndenotes one void of fear; to dream you see an armed man fly is a sign of\nvictory; to see men come in arms against you, signifies sadness.\n=Action.=--To dream that you are sent of an errand, signifies great loss\nto the married; to the lover it denotes success in his pursuit, and that\nhe will shortly marry a very amiable and accomplished maiden. For a maiden\nto dream that she was sent on an errand, denotes that she will shortly\nmarry the object of her affections and be very happy. To the sick it\ndenotes a speedy recovery. =Ascend.=--For one to dream they ascend towards\nthe skies is favorable, particularly so if the clouds appear bright.\n=Air.=--To dream of the atmosphere has a variety of interpretations, and\ndepends entirely on its appearance. If you dream the sky is clear, of a\nfine blue, calm and serene, then it is a good omen. To dream that it is\nstreaked with white, denotes that many severe difficulties will befall\nyou, over which you will eventually triumph. To dream that it was full of\nthick, dark and heavy clouds, is an unfavorable token; disappointments\nwill attend you. To dream that the sky is streaked with red and looks\nfiery, denotes that in love you will be successful; in business not so; it\nalso forewarns you that sickness and trouble will attend your family.\n=Altar.=--To dream you are at the altar and receiving the holy sacrament\nis a very unfavorable omen, and denotes many heavy and severe afflictions.\n=Adder.=--A person that dreams of the asp and the adder, is thereby\nbetokened to have stores of money and rich wives. =Assassin.=--To dream of\nan assassin is a warning not to be neglected. Shun all pretending friends,\nlend no money, be ever on your guard, and you may escape destruction,\nwhich is planned for your ruin. =Ants.=--To dream of these industrious\nlittle insects, hath a variety of interpretations, depending on the manner\nin which you dream of them; if you see them running about, it denotes that\nyou will be a great loser by some plan that you will undertake for gain.\nIf you dream you see them busily employed laying in their winter stores,\nit is a good omen--things will prosper with you. If they appear to be\ndevoured by other animals, and otherwise injured and trodden upon, then it\nis a bad omen. If you dream of these insects when you are sick, you must\nexpect to recover very slowly. =Auction.=--To dream you attend an auction\nis, on the whole, unfavorable. If you purchase, expect loss of property.\nIf you only attend, you are sure to meet with a heavy deprivation of\nfriends and property. If you pass by one, then you will attain, in a few\nyears, all that you moderately desire.\n\n=Bear.=--\n\n    To dream a bear thy step pursues,\n    A cruel foe some mischief brews.\n\n=Beggars.=--To dream of beggars is rather unfavorable, especially to\nlovers and persons in business. To dream they beg alms of you and that you\nrefuse it, denotes misery, want, and a prison; if you are in love, some\nscandalous person will ruin you with your sweetheart. To dream that you\ngive them alms, indicates success in business, and that you will obtain,\nafter much difficulty, the object of your affections; your children will\nbe sickly, and narrowly escape many dangers. =Bleeding.=--To dream you are\nbleeding, denotes loss of goods and character, and that your sweetheart\nwill not marry you. To dream you see another bleeding, indicates that some\nperson who pretends to be your friend is about to take some great\nadvantage of you. To dream you draw blood of another, denotes that you\nwill recover a lawsuit and be successful in love and business. To dream\nanother draws blood of you, is a certain prognostic that you will be\nunsuccessful in love and in business, and in everything you undertake.\n=Blind.=--To dream of being blind is a sure sign that you repose your\nconfidence in some person who is your bitter enemy; it denotes also that\nyour sweetheart is unfaithful and prefers another; in business it denotes\nthat you will lose money, and that your servants lack fidelity.\n=Boat.=--To dream that you are on the water in a boat, provided you are in\ncompany, denotes prosperity and success in your undertakings. If you dream\nyou are in a boat alone, it is a bad omen. To dream the boat oversets, is\nthe most fatal of all omens. =Bridge.=--To dream you are crossing over a\nbridge is a good omen--it denotes prosperity through life, and success in\nlove. To dream you are passing under a bridge, indicates that you will\nnever be perfectly at ease. If you meet with any obstruction on the\nbridge it foretells a fit of sickness; are you a lover, it denotes that\nyour sweetheart will be afflicted with illness. To dream a bridge breaks\ndown with you denotes sudden death. =Bread.=--To dream you see a great\nquantity of loaves of bread, denotes success in life. To dream you are\neating good bread, denotes that you will be shortly married. To dream the\nbread is musty and bad, denotes the loss of friends and that some near\nrelation will shortly die. =Brother.=--To dream you see your brother,\ndenotes a speedy marriage in your family and that the dreamer will not be\nlong-lived; if you are in love it is a favorable omen. =Building.=--To\ndream of being amongst buildings, denotes that you will change your\npresent place of residence and that you will make many new friends in\nlife; if you are in love it foretells your sweetheart is about to remove\nat a distance from you, and that you will be in danger of losing the\naffections of your lover by a new face. =Bulls.=--To dream you are pursued\nby a bull, denotes that many injurious reports will be spread on your\ncharacter. If you dream the bull gores you, or tosses you, then expect\nshortly to lose your liberty; it denotes that some person in power will do\nyou an injury. =Burning.=--\n\n    To dream of burning doth imply,\n    A sudden danger, ripe and nigh;\n    Of all escapes you then beware,\n    For though fate threatens, it may spare.\n\n=Butchers.=--To dream of seeing butchers is in general a very unlucky\nomen; it always foretells some injury to the dreamer. If you see them\ncutting up meat some of your friends will be hanged, and you will\nexperience much misery and poverty. =Bed.=--To dream you go to the bedside\nof your lover, foretells a speedy marriage; if you dream you go between\nthe sheets, you will have a child within twelve months after marriage, who\nwill become rich and afford you support in your old age. =Banquets.=--To\ndream of banquets denotes poverty and want. =Bat.=--To dream of bats is\nvery inauspicious. =Belly.=--To dream one\u2019s belly is bigger and fuller\nthan ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase. If one dreams\nhis belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of\nsome bad accident. If any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet\nnotwithstanding be empty, he will become poor, though he be rich in the\nesteem of many people in the world. If any one dreams his belly aches, he\nwill be afflicted in his family and have many cares upon him. =Blowing the\nFire.=--To dream you are blowing the fire indicates to the lover, that\nyour sweetheart is very angry with you. =Barn.=--To dream of a barn, and\nthat you see it well stored with corn, denotes much good; it foretells to\na man that he will marry some rich woman; to a maid, that she will marry a\nman who will grow very rich by his industry, and be promoted in the state.\nIf you dream you see an empty barn, the reverse will happen.\n=Bathing.=--To dream of a bath is a very unpropitious omen; expect after\nit to experience many mishaps and much sorrow. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will experience many crosses and losses; but to dream you are\nbathing yourself in clear water, denotes happiness, prosperity and success\nin love--if the water is dirty, then it foretells shame and sorrow, and a\ndisappointment in love. =Beheading.=--To dream you see any one beheaded,\nis a good omen; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your\naffections. If you are in prison, you will speedily gain your liberty.\n=Bells.=--To dream you hear the bells ringing, denotes a speedy marriage\nand that you will receive some very good news. =Bees.=--To dream they\nsting you, denotes loss of character, and if you are in love, of your\nsweetheart. To dream you see them at work, is a very lucky dream; it\nforebodes great success by your own industry. To dream you see them making\ntheir honey under your own roof is the best omen in the world. For the\nrich to dream of bees, is rather unlucky, but to the poor, they denote\ncomfort, affluence and success. =Beard.=--For a man to dream he has a long\nbeard, denotes good fortune; if he is in trade, he will thrive; if he is\nin love, he will marry the present object of his affections, who will\nbring him some money; if he is a farmer, it denotes good crops, and an\naddition to his farm. If a married woman dreams of a beard, it is unlucky;\nit foretells the loss of her husband and that she will fall into great\ndistress. If a maid dreams of a beard, it denotes that she will be quickly\nmarried and that the fruit of her womb is a boy. For a woman to dream that\nshe has a beard is a very lucky omen, and denotes that she will speedily\nattain her most sanguine desires. =Battle.=--To dream of battle in the\nstreets, forewarns you against secret enemies who will endeavor to harm\nyou. If you are in love, your sweetheart is false to you. =Bacon.=--To\ndream of bacon denotes the death of some friend or relation and that\nenemies will endeavor to do you mischief. In love, it denotes\ndisappointment and discontent. =Back.=--To dream you see your back,\nbetokens some uneasiness; for the back to be broken or hurt, shows you\nwill be scoffed at by your enemies; yet to dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and success in love, marriage and business. =Basin.=--To\ndream of a basin, signifies a good maid; and to dream you eat or drink\ntherein, shows you have a love to the servant maid. For a man to see\nhimself in a basin as in a glass, denotes he shall have children by a\nservant maid. =Beech and Myrtle Trees.=--Signifies wanton women and are\ngood for those who would undertake any such business; to others they are\npain and labor. =Beans.=--To dream you are eating beans always signifies\ntrouble and dissension. =Beets.=--To dream of eating beets, signifies\nfreedom from trouble and expedition on business, because they make the\nbody soluble. =Burial.=--\n\n    To dream a burial passes by,\n    News of the living doth imply.\n\n=Briars and Brambles.=--If you dream you are passing through places\ncovered with these things, it portends troubles; if they prick you, secret\nenemies will do you an injury with your friends and unfavorable tales\nwill make your sweetheart shy of you; if they draw blood of you, expect\nheavy losses in trade. If you dream you pass through them without injury,\nthen you will at last triumph over all your enemies and become happy.\n=Bells.=--To dream one hears ringing of bells, if of a sanguine\ncomplexion, brings them good news; but to others, it shows alarms,\nmurmurings, disturbances and commotions. =Birding.=--To dream you catch\nbirds, signifies profit and pleasure. =Bird\u2019s Nest.=--To dream you find\none is a good sign. To dream you find one without eggs or birds, shows you\nwill meet with great disappointments. =Birth.=--To dream of one\u2019s birth is\ngood for him that is poor; but to him that is rich, this dream signifies\nthat others shall rule over him against his will. =Blindman\u2019s Buff.=--To\ndream that one plays blindman\u2019s buff, signifies prosperity, joy and\npleasure. =Blossoming of Trees.=--To dream you see all sorts of trees\nblossoming, is a sign of joy, comfort and recreation. =Brewing and\nBaking.=--To dream of brewing and baking is the sign of an ill housewife,\nwho lies dreaming in bed, when she should be at work and doing her\nbusiness. =Breast.=--To dream that you have hairy breasts and the tap pup\ncovered with hair, denotes great gain and profit to men; but to a woman,\nloss of her husband. If a young married woman dreams that her breasts are\nfull and spurting out milk, it signifies that she is with child and that\nit will be a perfect birth. If a virgin dreams thus, she is near her\nmarriage. If a woman dreams she has sore breasts she is threatened with\ndeath. =Broth.=--To dream of eating broth is a good sign and signifies\nprofit and gain. =Buried Alive.=--For a man to dream he is buried alive,\nsignifies he shall have much wealth. =Burned.=--For a man to dream he is\nburned, signifies (according to the interpretations of the Persians and\nEgyptians) that he shall be rich, honored and respected; but if he\nimagines that he was burned by a fire that did not quite consume him, he\nwill inevitably perish in the end. =Basket.=--For a man to dream of\nbaskets is evil; it denotes decay of business to a merchant, want of\nemployment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman\ndreams she receives a number of baskets it is a good omen, and especially\nso if well filled; to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new\nlovers; to a wife, that she will have an increase in her family, and to\nthe widow, that she will soon marry again. =Bonnet.=--For a maiden to\ndream she gets a new bonnet, gives promise of a new lover, but Mother\nShipton says that much depends on the color; if green, he will be\ndeceitful; if blue, he will prove affectionate; if pink, his love will not\nbe lasting; if yellow or white, he will quickly improve marriage; but if a\nfemale loses her bonnet, it behooves her to be guarded of her virtue, for\nshe is in danger of being led astray; if it be blown off, she will have\nsomething she dearly prizes stolen from her. =Buttons.=--To dream of\nbright buttons is seldom good; if rusty, it portends misfortune; if\ncovered, sadness. If a man dreams he has lost all the buttons of his\nclothes, it is a sign he will not live long.\n\n=Cards.=--To dream that you are playing at cards is a sure prognostic that\nyou will be in love, and speedily married. If you hold a great many\npicture cards, your marriage will be the means of making you rich and\nhappy. If your cards are mostly diamonds, the person you marry will be of\na sour and disagreeable temper. If they are mostly hearts, your marriage\nwill cement love, and you will be very happy and have many children. If\nthey are mostly clubs, you will get money by your marriage. If they are\nmostly spades, your marriage will turn out very unhappy and your children\nwill be unfaithful and subject to many hardships. If you are in\nexpectation of a place, you will get it, and if you are in business you\nwill be successful. =Cats.=--To dream of these domestic animals is\nindicative of much trouble and vexation; it denotes to the lover that your\nsweetheart is treacherous. If you keep servants, they are unfaithful, and\nwill rob you. To dream you kill a cat, denotes that you discover a thief\nand prosecute him to conviction; expect also to lose your own liberty\nthrough some pretended friend. =Cattle.=--To dream you see cattle feeding,\ndenotes great prosperity and unexpected success; to a lover it foretells a\nhappy marriage, with many children, and to a man it shows that his wife\nwill receive some unexpected legacy. To dream you are driving cattle\ndenotes that you will become rich by industry. If you are in love it shows\nthat you have many rivals, but that you will distance them all. To dream\nyou see fat cattle also denotes a plentiful year. To dream you see lean\nand hungry cattle, denotes scarcity and famine. =Clock.=--To dream you\nhear the clock strike, denotes that you will be speedily married, and that\nyou will be moderately successful in life. To dream you are counting the\nhours, if in the forenoon, shows much happiness, and that your sweetheart\nis true to you, but if in the afternoon, that misfortune and danger will\nattend you, and that your sweetheart is false and loves another.\n=Coach.=--To dream you are riding in a coach is a very unlucky omen. It\nforetells poverty and disgrace. If you are in love, your sweetheart will\nbe idle and bad-tempered. If you are in trade, you will become bankrupt,\nand if you are a farmer, your goods will be seized for rent. It also\ndenotes that the dreamer will shortly be in prison. =Coals.=--To dream of\ncoals is a very unlucky omen. It denotes much affliction and trouble. To\ndream you see coals burning, if they are very clear and bright, is a good\nsign. To dream you see the coals extinguished and reduced to cinders,\ndenotes death, either to yourself or some near relation or friend; it also\nindicates great losses, and forewarns you of beggary and prison.\n=Comets.=--To dream you see one of these extraordinary ethereal\nsubstances, is ominous of war, plague, famine, and death; to the lover it\nforebodes an entire frustration of his hopes; to the farmer, failure of\ncrops; and to the seaman, storms and shipwrecks. After such a dream\nchange, if possible, your present place of residence. =Cook.=--\n\n    Dream you\u2019re busy with a cook,\n    And for a wedding shortly look.\n\n=Corn.=--To dream you see fields of corn, or that you are among unthrashed\ncorn, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success in business; to the\nlover it announces that you will marry, have many children, and become\nrich and happy. If you are a sailor, it denotes a lucrative voyage and\nfine weather, and that you will be near marrying in the next port you\ntouch at. If you dream you are gathering ripe corn, it is the most\nfortunate dream you can have. =Crowns.=--To dream you see these emblems of\nroyalty, portends success and elevation to dignities, either in the church\nor state. For a maid to dream of a crown, shows she will marry a very\nindustrious man, or one who is rich. =Crutches.=--To dream you are walking\non crutches, is a very unfavorable omen. To dream you see another walking\non crutches, denotes that these things will happen to some friend. If you\nare a married man, then that your wife is inconstant; if a married woman,\nthen that the husband is ruining himself with some harlot. =Currants.=--To\ndream of currants prefigures happiness in life, success in undertakings,\nconstancy in your sweetheart, handsome children to the married, riches to\nthe farmer and tradesman. =Church.=--To dream of church is portentous of\nevil. If you are in a church during divine service, you will be engaged in\na lawsuit, or some other quarrel that will very near ruin you. If you are\nin love, your sweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another. If you expect\na place, it forebodes disappointment. If you are in trade, you will never\nthrive in your present situation. =Cage.=--To dream of letting birds out\nof a cage denotes a speedy marriage. To a person in business it denotes\nsuccess, and to a farmer it denotes good crops. =Cain.=--To dream of the\nfirstborn son of man, who was Adam\u2019s eldest son, is a very unfavorable\nomen; after such a dream let the dreamer travel into another part of the\ncountry and form new connections. =Cakes.=--To dream you are eating cakes,\ndenotes happiness and prosperity.\n\n    Dream that cakes you knead and make,\n    You thrive and many profits take.\n\n=Candles.=--To dream you see candles burning, if they burn clear and\nbright, that you will be speedily married. To dream that new candles are\nbrought in, denotes that by the interference of friends, all your disputes\nwill be amicably adjusted and that your sweetheart will recover from a fit\nof sickness.\n\n    A light that burns both bright and clear,\n    Denotes some pleasant letter near;\n    But if dull the candle grows,\n    It certain disappointment shows.\n\n=Cheese.=--\n\n    To dream of cheese is not in vain.\n    In trade you will profit gain.\n\n=Chickens.=--To dream of a hen and chickens is the forerunner of ill luck;\nyour sweetheart will betray you and marry another. If you are a farmer,\nyou will have a bad crop and lose many of your poultry. If you are in\ntrade some sharper will defraud you. If you go to sea, you will lose your\ngoods and narrowly escape shipwreck. =Chess.=--If any one dreams that he\nplays at chess with an acquaintance, it is a sign that he will fall out\nwith somebody he knows, and if he imagines in his dream he wins, he shall\novercome his enemies. And on the contrary, if he dream that he loses, he\nwill be overcome and worsted in the combat. =Clouds.=--To dream of white\nclouds, signifies prosperity; clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes\nvoyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red\nand inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of dark and obscure\nclouds, shows an ill time of anger. =Caterpillars.=--To dream you see\ncaterpillars, signifies ill luck and misfortune by secret enemies.\n=Chains,= pearls, precious stones, earrings, &c., and all adornings of the\nhands and necks of women, are good dreams to the fair sex; to widows and\nmaids they signify marriage; and to those that have husbands and children,\npurchases and riches; for as women are provided with these deckings, so\nshall they be stored with husbands, children and goods. =Chariot.=--To\ndream of driving a chariot drawn by wolves, leopards, dogs, tigers, or\nsuch like beasts, is only good to such as have great enemies. To dream to\nbe drawn in a chair by men is good. =Cheeks.=--To dream one hath cheeks\nplump, fat and of vermilion tincture, is good to all, especially women,\nbut to dream that you are lean, pale, and full of wrinkles, signifies\ngrief and heaviness. =Capon.=--To dream that a capon crows, signifies\nsadness and trouble. =Carrion.=--To dream of carrion, signifies sadness.\n=Carrots.=--To dream of carrots, signifies profit and strength to them\nwhich are at law for inheritance; for we pluck them out of the ground with\nour hands, branches, strings and veins. =Cart.=--To dream of being tied to\na cart, to draw like an horse or an ox, denotes servitude and pain to\neverybody; but to dream that you are carried in a cart or coach, the\ncontrary. =Coalpit.=--To dream of being in the bottom of a coalpit,\nsignifies marrying with a widow; for he that marries her shall never sound\nthe depth of her policies. =Combing.=--For any person to dream of combing\nhim or herself, is good, both for man or woman, for it signifies to get\nout of evil times or affairs. =Comfort.=--To dream you have comforts of\nany one, betokens to the rich and happy, injury and mishap; but to the\npoor and afflicted, aid and comfort. =Command.=--To dream you command any\none, signifies trouble; to dream you see one command, signifies anger and\nauthority. =Complexion.=--To dream you see an unknown person of a brown\ncomplexion, is a sign of glory, honor, success and dispatch of business.\nIf one dreams he sees a woman of a very brown complexion, it signifies a\nvery dangerous disease. If you see a woman unknown in your dream, with\nlong and comely hair, with clear complexion, it is a very good sign.\n=Corns.=--For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionately to his corns. =Crocodile.=--To dream of a\ncrocodile, signifies pirates or robbers at sea, or wicked periods in any\nsort like the crocodile. =Cross.=--To dream you see a cross carried along,\nsignifies sadness. =Cross Purposes.=--To dream one plays at cross\npurposes, signifies prosperity, joy, pleasure, health and concord among\nfriends and relations. =Crow.=--To dream you see a crow, signifies\nexpedition of business. To dream you see a crow flying, is ill luck; and\nif you hear them croaking unpleasantly, the dream is so much the worse. If\nyou dream the crow flies on the head of a child, it will be in great\ndanger of some misfortune. =Cypress Trees.=--To dream you see a cypress\ntree denotes affliction in business. =Crowing.=--To dream you are crowing,\nor that you hear others crowing, denotes ill luck, especially to lovers;\nbut to dream that you hear pigeons crowing, is good, especially to the\nnewly-married, as it denotes happiness. =Crawl.=--To dream that you are\ncrawling on the floor is bad; but to dream that you are crawling on the\nroof of a house is good, particularly to the lovers, as it is a sure sign\nthey will be married. =Children.=--To dream you see children, denotes\nsuccess in your undertakings. To dream you see a child born, denotes a\nspeedy marriage and that you will be very happy with your family. To dream\nyou see a child die, imports that you will experience some very heavy\nmisfortune, and that your sweetheart will marry another. To dream you see\nchildren dirty and ragged, denotes that some friend will endeavor to\nprevail upon you to commit an act by which your reputation will be\nendangered; it also denotes that you will be in prison and experience\npoverty. For a maiden to dream she is with child, denotes that some man\nwill attempt to rob her of her chastity, and that if she resists she will\nmarry and be very happy. =Climbing.=--To dream that you are climbing up a\ntree, denotes that you will be successful in life. To dream you are\nclimbing up a very steep hill or place, foretells many difficulties in\nlife, and much sickness. If you reach the top, you will get over all your\ndifficulties and recover from your illness; but if you awake before you\nhave attained the top, you will be disappointed in love and all other\nprojects and die in your next illness. =Cherries.=--To dream of cherries\nis a disappointment in life, vexation in the married state and slight in\nlove. =Cucumbers.=--To dream of cucumbers, denotes recovery to the sick,\nand that you will speedily fall in love, or that if you are in love, you\nwill marry the object of your affection. It also denotes moderate success\nin trade. To the sailor it foretells a pleasant voyage and a sweetheart in\na distant climate. =Coffin.=--To dream of one denotes the death of a\nfriend or some near relation.\n\n=Disease.=--To dream you have any disease promises prompt and speedy\nemployment. =Dragon.=--To dream you see a dragon signifies riches and gain\nof great treasure. =Dancing.=--To dream that you are dancing at a ball,\nwake, or entertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive some\njoyful news from a long absent friend, and that you are about to inherit\nsome unexpected legacy; for it foretells success and happiness in love;\nthat your sweetheart is kind. =Deer.=--To dream you see deer in a park,\ndenotes war and famine; to the lover it foretells some unpleasant dispute\nwith his sweetheart. =Dice.=--To dream you are playing at dice or\nback-gammon, denotes much good to the dreamer, in either love, marriage\nor trade. =Dirt.=--To dream of dirt signifies sickness and dishonor. To\ndream you fall in the dirt, signifies that you shall be treacherously\ndealt with. =Ditches.=--To dream of deep ditches, steep mountains, rocks,\nand other eminences, surely foretells danger and misfortune. Expect\nthieves to rob your dwelling; that your children will be undutiful and\nbring you into trouble. If you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if\nyou marry your present sweetheart. If you are in trade, it denotes loss of\ngoods, if not of liberty. =Dogs.=--To dream of these faithful and domestic\nanimals has very different significations, according to the manner in\nwhich you see them. If they fawn and fondle upon you, then it is a very\nlucky omen. If you are in love, your sweetheart will marry you and be very\nhappy. If they are barking and snarling at you, then depend that enemies\nare secretly endeavoring to destroy your reputation and happiness; if you\nare in love, be careful of your sweetheart. =Drowning.=--To dream you are\ndrowning, or that you see another drowned or drowning, portends good to\nthe dreamer. To the lover it denotes that your sweetheart is good-tempered\nand inclined to marry you. =Dead.=--To dream of talking with dead folks is\na good, auspicious dream, and signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience. To dream a man is dead that is alive and in health,\nsignifies great trouble and being overthrown at law. =Darkness.=--To dream\nyou are in a very dark place, or that you are in the dark, is a very\nunfavorable omen. To dream you get out of darkness into light, denotes\ngood to the dreamer. Expect also to hear some glad tidings from a far\ndistant country. =Death.=--To dream of death, denotes that you will either\nbe speedily married yourself, or else assist at a wedding. To dream that\nyou are dead, also denotes a speedy marriage, and that you will be\nsuccessful in your undertakings. To dream you see another person dead,\ndenotes unkind usage from your friends. =Drunkenness.=--To dream you are\ndrunk, is one of those dreams by which the dreamer is forewarned of that\nof which at present he knows nothing. It denotes that some person whom yet\nyou do not know, will become a very good friend and promote your welfare.\nTo a woman, it denotes that she will be beloved by an excellent man whom\nyet she has not seen; and to a man it denotes that he is tenderly beloved\nby a woman whom he does not at present think of, who will make him\nextremely happy, and bring him money. =Dairy.=--To dream you are in a\ndairy busy at work, is a very favorable omen; to the maid it indicates\nthat her lover will be of an industrious turn, and that if she marries,\nshe will have children, and her husband will become rich and rise to\nhonor. To the farmer it denotes that his crops will be abundant, but that\nhe will lose some of his live stock by thieves. =Devil.=--To dream of this\nenemy to the human race, denotes that many dangers will threaten you, all\nof which you will overcome. If you are in love, it forebodes that some one\nis endeavoring to alienate the affection of your sweetheart, but will be\nunsuccessful. =Dolphin.=--To dream of a dolphin, shows to seafaring men a\nwind from the place whence you dream he cometh. But to dream you see the\ndolphin out of water, signifies the death of friends. =Drink.=--To dream\nyou drink cold water, is good, but hot signifies sickness and hindrance of\naffairs. To dream you drink wine with moderation, is good; to drink oil,\nsignifies poison. To dream you are drinking when you are dry from a stream\nor fountain, is a sign of sickness. If a man dreams he is drunk with sack,\nor some sweet, pleasant drink, it is a sign he will be beloved by some\nlady and grow rich thereby. =Dunghill.=--To dream you stand on a dunghill\nis a favorable omen. It is a sure forerunner of success in everything\nundertaken at this time. For a maiden to dream she is on a dunghill, is a\nsign that she will marry the choice of her affections, who will be a man\nof some importance. =Daisy.=--It is good to dream of daisies in the spring\nor summer, but bad in fall or winter. =Dandelions.=--To dream of gathering\ndandelions is ominous to one. To dream you see a large bed of them denotes\nthat you have many new enemies forming, who will do you much injury in\nsecret. If one in love dreams of dandelions, be sure their sweetheart is\nplaying them false.\n\n=Eagles.=--To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honor; to the lover it foretells success in love\nand a happy marriage. To dream you see an eagle perched on the steeple of\na church, or on any high eminence, is a very good omen; it denotes that in\nsome arduous undertaking you will be successful and thereby arrive at\nriches and honor; it also denotes that the dreamer will make his fortune\nbeyond the sea. If a woman with child dreams of an eagle, then it denotes\nthat her offspring will marry well and be very happy. =Eggs.=--To dream\nyou are buying or selling eggs, is a very favorable omen; whatever you are\nthen about will succeed, whether it be love, trade, or getting a place. To\ndream that you are eating eggs, denotes that you will shortly have a child\nand that your affairs will go well. To dream your eggs are broken, denotes\nloss of goods, quarrels and poverty; if you are in love, it forebodes a\nseparation between you and your sweetheart. =Elderberries.=--To dream of\nelderberries augurs content and riches; to a maiden they bespeak a speedy\nmarriage; to a married woman, that she will shortly be with child; to the\ntradesman, success in business; to the farmer, good crops.\n=Elephants.=--To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream; it\ndenotes acquirement of riches. If you are in love, it denotes a speedy\nmarriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys, who will\ndistinguish themselves by their learning. =Eclipse.=--To dream you see an\neclipse of the moon, denotes that you will lose some female friend--your\nmother, if she be living. You will experience a great uneasiness on\naccount of a woman. Your sweetheart will prove unfaithful. Poverty will\novertake you and misery end your days. To dream you see an eclipse of the\nsun, denotes that you will lose some male friend--your father, if he be\nalive; and that you will experience some uneasiness by the means of some\ntroublesome friends; to a woman with child it foretells a son, who will be\na great man. =Earthquake.=--To dream of an earthquake, warns you that your\naffairs are about to take a great change. If you see many houses tumble\ninto ruins, then it will be much for the better. =Eyes.=--To dream you\nlose your eyes, is a very unfortunate omen. It denotes decay of\ncircumstances, loss of friends, death of relations and miscarriage in\nlove. If a woman with child dreams of it, it denotes that the child will\nbe very unhappy and lose its liberty. =Execution.=--To dream of the\nexecution of offenders, shows that you will be suddenly sought after for\nrelief by some that are in great want and extremity. =Earthworms.=--To\ndream of earthworms, signifies secret enemies that endeavor to ruin and\ndestroy us. =Ear.=--If a man dreams his ears be fair and well shaped, it\nshows he shall come to great renown; but if he dreams his ears are\nill-favored and deformed, it shows the contrary. This dream is ill to a\nservant, and those who have a lawsuit, if he be a plaintiff or the\ndefendant, but it is good to an artificer or one that worketh with his\nhands, for he shall have many that will employ him. To dream that one\npicks or cleans his ears, betokens that good news shall come forth one\nside or other. But to dream that the ears have been beaten or chafed,\nsignifies we shall hear ill news. If any one dreams his ear is hurt or\nsplit, he will be offended by some one that belongs to him, or by some\nfriend. If he dream that his ear is quite off, he shall be utterly\ndeprived of their friendship. =Eve.=--To dream you see the mother of all\nmen, is a favorable omen. It denotes great happiness to the lover.\n=Eyebrows.=--To dream the eyebrows are hairy and of a good grace, is good,\nespecially to a woman. But if either men or women dream their eyebrows are\nmore large or comely than they used to be, it is a sign they will succeed\nin the matrimonial way. =Evil Spirits.=--To dream evil spirits obstruct\nyour doing good under a show of devotion, denotes obstruction in your\naffairs by a hypocrite; and if you dream that you see hideous\nphysiognomies, something vulgar will be revealed to you. =Eating.=--To\ndream that you are eating, is a very unfavorable omen; it portends\ndisunion in your family, losses in trade, and disappointment in love,\nstorms and shipwrecks by sea. =Enemy.=--To dream you talk to an enemy, is\na caution to beware of him. To dream you fight with and are worsted by\nhim, denotes that you will meet with some misfortune which has threatened\nyou for some time. =Eels.=--To dream of eels, signifies to beware of\nslippery pursuits and uncertain speculations. If the eels escape you, you\nwill be jilted in love; if you hold them, honor and happiness will be in\nstore for you. =Elf.=--To dream of an elf signifies a happy return of one\nlong absent; presents of value may be expected after this dream, which\nalso signifies marriage, with wealth, position and happiness.\n=Elopement.=--To dream of a friend\u2019s elopement, signifies marriage against\nthe wishes of your friends, and unhappiness. To dream of your own\nelopement, betokens entering into ruinous speculations in love or\nbusiness. =Epitaph.=--To read or write an epitaph in your dream,\nsignifies much good to come from a secret friend. To read your own\nepitaph, signifies marriage with one now an entire stranger, of great\nwealth and position. =Equipage.=--To dream of possessing one, signifies\ncomplete happiness, with the gratification of every wish, however\nextravagant.\n\n=Face.=--To dream your face is swelled shows that you will accumulate\nwealth. If you are in love, it denotes that your sweetheart will receive\nan unexpected legacy and marry you. =Fall.=--To dream you fall from any\nhigh place, or from a tree, denotes loss of place and goods. If you are in\nlove, it surely indicates that you will never marry the present object of\nyour affections. =Feet.=--To dream you are near a river or fountain and\nthat you wash your feet, signifies molestation and trouble. To dream of\none scratching the soles of your feet, signifies loss by flattery.\n=Fan.=--If a maiden dreams she has been fanned by a man, she will soon\nmake a new conquest, or marry the present object of her affections. For a\nman to dream he is fanning a person, signifies that he will soon meet with\nmany changes in his affairs. =Furniture.=--To dream of getting new\nfurniture that pleases you, is good. If it seems not to please, the dream\nis a bad one. To be pleased with furniture, denotes health, happiness and\nprosperity. To display furniture, denotes trouble, perhaps a death or a\nfuneral. =Faction.=--To dream of being engaged in faction or sedition,\ndenotes wealth by indirect ways. =Father-in-law.=--To dream one sees his\nfather-in-law, either dead or alive, is ill, especially if he dreams that\nhe uses violence or threatening. =Fish-ponds.=--To dream of fishponds,\ndenotes thriving. =Flageolet.=--To dream that you play or hear playing on\na flageolet, denotes trouble and contention, and being overthrown at law.\n=Flesh.=--If anyone dreams he is increased in flesh, he will gain wealth.\nOn the contrary, if he dreams he is grown lean and thin, if he be rich, he\nwill grow poor, or at least conceal his wealth, and he will be in a mean\ncondition. To dream of eating all sorts of meat, whether flesh or fish,\nsignifies either neglect of business, or anger and sickness. =Flies.=--To\ndream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many enemies; it also\ndenotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares but little about\nyou. To dream you kill them is a very good omen. =Flute.=--To dream you\nplay or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble and contention.\n=Fool.=--For a man to dream he is a fool, is good for those who would\ngovern and teach children. =Folly.=--For a woman to dream she is become\nfoolish, and is publicly guilty of folly, is a sign she will have a boy,\nwho in time will grow great. If a maid, she will be speedily married, and\nthat to an honest man. =Forest.=--To dream that you are walking in a\nforest, signifies trouble. =Fields.=--To dream you are in green fields, is\na very favorable omen. To dream you are in ploughed fields, forebodes some\nsevere disputes that will be brought upon you by some person who has no\nchildren. To the lover, it denotes disappointment; to the married,\nunhappiness and undutiful children; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand a prison. To dream you are in a meadow covered with flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen. If you are soliciting a place or favor, it portends you\nwill surely obtain it. =Figs.=--To dream of figs, is the forerunner of\nprosperity and happiness. To the lover, they denote the accomplishment of\nyour wishes. To the tradesman, increase of trade. They are also indicative\nof legacy. =Fighting.=--To dream you are fighting, denotes to the lover\nthat you will lose the object of your affections through a foolish\nquarrel. It also forebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of\ncharacter and property. After such a dream, you are urgently recommended\nto quit your present situation, because such a dream indicates that you\nwill not prosper in it. To the sailor it denotes storm and shipwreck, with\ndisappointment in love. =Fire.=--To dream of this subtle element, denotes\nhealth and happiness to the lover, marriage to the object of his\naffections and many children. It also denotes that you will be very angry\nwith some one on a trifling occasion. To dream you see burning lights\ndescending as it were from heaven, is a very bad sign indeed. It portends\nsome dreadful accident to the dreamer, such as being hanged, losing your\nhead, having your brains dashed out, breaking your legs, getting into\nprison, or other strange accidents. To the lover, it also denotes the loss\nof the affections of your sweetheart. To the tradesman, bad success in\nbusiness. To dream that you are burnt by fire, denotes great danger, and\nthat enemies will injure you. To the sailor, storms and shipwreck.\n=Fishing.=--To dream you are fishing, is a sure sign of sorrow and\ntrouble. If you catch any fish, you will be successful in love and\nbusiness. If you catch none, you will never marry your present sweetheart,\nnor succeed in your present undertakings. If they slip out of your hands\nafter you have caught them, the person you marry will be of a roving\ndisposition, and some pretended friend will deceive you. =Filberts.=--To\ndream of filberts, forebodes much trouble and anger from friends. To the\ntradesman, they denote a prison, and decay of trade; to the lover, a\ncomplete disappointment; to the married, care and undutiful children.\n=Fingers.=--To dream you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good\nomen. You will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind\nand true. You will get money from a quarter that you least expect, and be\nsuccessful in your enterprises. If you dream that they do not bleed, then\nit denotes damage by a variety of accidents. That lawsuits will attend\nyou, and that you will be unsuccessful in most of your pursuits. In love\nyou will not succeed with your present sweetheart, who prefers another. To\ndream you lose your fingers, denotes the loss of friends, servants, goods,\ntrade and sweethearts. =Feasting.=--To dream that you are at a feast,\ndenotes that you will meet with many disappointments, particularly in the\nthing which you are most anxious about. In love it forebodes much\nuneasiness between sweethearts, and to them which are married it foretells\nundutiful children, with many heavy losses. =Fleas.=--To dream you are\ntormented with these little insects is unfavorable. =Floods.=--To dream\nof a flood, shows that you will meet with great opposition from rich\nneighbors, and that a rich rival will attempt to alienate the affections\nof your mistress. To the tradesman it denotes lawsuits, loss of business,\nand a prison; to the sailor, it denotes much success by sea, but danger on\nshore; to the farmer, it indicates loss of cattle and a dispute with the\nlandlord. To dream you are drowned in a flood, denotes that you will quit\nyour native land and after many hardships and perils return to it rich and\nhappy. That you will marry a pretty woman and have fine children.\n=Flowers.=--To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very favorable omen.\nExpect to thrive in everything you undertake and that you will be\nsuccessful in love, marry happily and have beautiful children. Should they\nwilt in your hands, then expect heavy losses in trade, that your\nsweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your\nhusband or wife and also your favorite child. =Flying.=--To dream you are\nflying, is a very excellent omen. It foretells elevation of fortune. That\nyou will arrive at dignity in the state and be happy. If you are in love,\nyour sweetheart will be true to you, and if you marry, you will have many\nchildren, who will all do very well and be very happy. It indicates that\nyou will take a long journey, which will turn out advantageous to you.\n=Forge.=--To dream of working a smith\u2019s forge, denotes a brain full of\nprojects. The blowing with the bellows signifies the getting of a wife and\nthe hammering on the anvil her scolding tongue. =Fortune.=--If any man\nbecome poor after he hath been rich, dreams he has the same land and\npossessions he had before, it signifies that his good fortune will return.\n=Fountain.=--To dream that you are at a fountain, is a very favorable\nomen. If the waters are clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love,\nit foretells great happiness in the marriage state, and that your\nsweetheart is of an amiable disposition and true to you; but if the waters\nappear muddy, then it denotes vexation and trouble, disappointment in\nbusiness, inconstancy in your sweetheart and misery in the marriage state.\n=Fox.=--To dream of this crafty animal is the forerunner of much\ndifficulty. If you are in love, your sweetheart will turn out of a sour,\ndisagreeable, ill-natured disposition. If you are in trade, sharpers will\nendeavor to defraud you and overreach you in bargains. =Friend.=--To dream\nyou see a friend dead, betokens hasty news of a joyful nature. If you are\nin love, it foretells a speedy marriage with the object of your\naffections. =Frogs.=--To dream of frogs, is a very favorable omen. To the\nfarmer, it foretells good crops and an increase of his live stock; to the\ntradesman, it denotes success in business; to the lover, a faithful\nsweetheart; to the married, an increase of children, who will be very\nhappy; to the sailor, pleasant and prosperous voyages, with a wife in a\ndistant country. =Fruits.=--If you dream of fruits when out of season, or\nthat you are gathering them when green, denotes sickness. If you dream\nthey are rotten, it foretells poverty. To dream of gathering ripe fruit,\nwhen there is plenty, betokens happiness and riches, and the speedy\nreceipt of money. If you gather fruit from an old withered tree, it is a\nsign that you will unexpectedly inherit the effects of some aged person.\nTo dream you have made yourself sick by eating fruit, is a sorrowful omen.\n=Funeral.=--To dream of a burial, denotes speedy marriage, and that you\nwill hear of the death or imprisonment of some near relation or esteemed\nfriend. It also foretells the acquisition of wealth, and that an estate\nwill fall to you from a distant relation by your mothers side. If you see\nany particular person attending a funeral, either that person, or some\nfriend of his, will die and leave you something. If there is a hearse with\nfeathers on it, you will many some rich person yourself, or assist at some\nrelation\u2019s wedding, who will marry well and be a friend to you.\n=Fairy.=--For a maiden to dream she sees a fairy, shows she will soon\nchange her present state by becoming the wife of a good husband. It is\ngood for women under any circumstances to dream of fairies, but it denotes\nevil to men, and no man should undertake any important matter for several\ndays after, or it will surely end in his being disappointed. =Files.=--To\ndream of dealing in files, prognosticates activity. To purchase files,\nshows you will have many applications to attend to business. To sell\nfiles, shows you will have others to work for you, yielding profitably.\n=Flambeau.=--To dream of flambeaux, is a sign of trouble, excitement and\ndistress. To the merchant, losses at sea; to the mechanic, want of\nemployment; to lovers, deceit and treachery. =Flag.=--To dream of raising\na flag signifies that your name will be widely known; to dream of seeing a\nflag floating, signifies good news. =Furnace.=--To dream of seeing a\nfurnace, indicates a quarrel which will cost you dear friends. If you heat\nthe furnace, you will be the only sufferer. =Ferry.=--To dream of crossing\na ferry, signifies that indecision in an important matter will make you\nthe laughing-stock of your friends. =Fortress.=--If you are confined in a\nfortress in your dream, your plans in life will suffer from undue\ninfluence of others. If you dream of placing others in confinement, look\nfor valuable goods, which will enrich you. =Fairs.=--To dream of going to\nfairs threatens the person so dreaming with having his pockets picked, or\nrobbed in some other way.\n\n=Gloves.=--To dream of receiving a gift of a pair of gloves, signifies an\noffer of friendship. If the gloves are light, the connection will be\npleasant; if dark, it is doubtful. To receive a package of gloves,\nsignifies much good offered to you at one time. To present gloves in a\ndream, signifies a gift in charity. To dream of old, ragged gloves,\nsignifies disappointment and deceit from your dearest friends.\n=Ghost.=--To dream of seeing it, signifies a marriage in the family. If\nyou dream it speaks, prepare to die. =Gallows.=--To dream of the gallows\nis a most fortunate omen. It shows that the dreamer will become rich and\narrive at great honors. To the lover, it shows the consummation of his\nmost sanguine wishes, and that by marriage he will become rich and happy,\nhave many children, particularly a son, who will become a great man, and\nbe the founder of his family\u2019s honor. =Garden.=--To dream you are walking\nin a garden, is of a very favorable nature. It portends elevation in\nfortune and dignity. To the lover, it denotes great success and an\nadvantageous marriage. To the tradesman, it promises increase of business.\nTo the farmer, plentiful crops, and to the sailor, prosperous voyages.\n=Geese.=--To dream of geese is a forerunner of good; expect to see a\nlong-absent friend. They denote success and riches to the dreamer in the\nfurtherance of his pursuits. In love, they augur speedy marriage and\nfidelity in your sweetheart. =Giants.=--To dream of seeing giants is\nominous of good. =Gifts.=--To dream you have anything given you, is a sign\nthat some good is about to happen to you. It also denotes that a speedy\nmarriage will take place between you and your sweetheart. To dream you\nhave given anything away, is the forerunner of adversity, and in love\ndenotes sickness and inconstancy in your sweetheart or partner.\n=Glass.=--To dream of glass, marks inconstancy in your sweetheart, and in\nbusiness of bad success in your undertakings in life. To dream you break\nglass, shows that your sweetheart will forsake you, and that you will\nunexpectedly meet with misfortunes and troubles. To dream you receive a\nglassful of water, is indicative of a speedy marriage and that you will\nhave many children, who will all do well. If the glass appears broken, the\ndeath of your sweetheart, or, if married, of your spouse, is predicted.\nFor a woman with child, or a married man whilst his wife is with child, to\ndream of breaking a glass of wine or water, denotes that the child in the\nwomb will be preserved after much danger, and perhaps the death of the\nmother. If either of them dream that they spill wine or water, it is\nindicative that the mother will live but the child will die. =Globe.=--To\ndream that you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and that you\nwill become a great traveler. =Gold.=--To dream of gold, is a very good\nomen. It denotes success in your present undertakings, after experiencing\nsome little difficulties. If you receive gold in bars, you will inherit an\nestate in a far distant country, and have some trouble in getting\npossession of it. If you receive eagles or any other gold coin, your\naffairs will prosper, your sweetheart will be true and marry you; you will\nhave many children and be very happy. If you pay gold, it betokens an\nincrease of friends and business. If you let gold fall, it denotes an\nattack from thieves. If you are in trade, some swindler will attempt to\ndefraud you. If you pick up gold, it denotes that some quarrel will be\nsettled to your advantage. If you are in prison, it shows you will\nspeedily be released. It also denotes the death of a husband or wife, if\nyou are married. If single, of your sweetheart. =Good.=--To dream that we\ndo good to one, signifies jollity and pleasure, and to dream that others\ndo us good, is profit and gain. =Gooseberries.=--To dream of gooseberries,\nindicates many children, chiefly sons, and an accomplishment of your\npresent pursuits. To the sailor, they declare dangers in his next voyage.\nTo the maiden, a proving husband, and to the man, a rakish wife.\n=Grapes.=--To dream of grapes, foretells to the maiden that her husband\nwill be a cheerful companion and a great songster. They denote much\nhappiness in marriage and success in trade. If you are in love, they augur\na speedy union between you and your sweetheart. =Grave.=--To dream you see\na grave, foretells sickness and disappointment. If you are in love, you\nwill surely never marry your present sweetheart. If you go into the grave,\nit shows you will experience a loss of property and that false friends\nwill defame you. If you come out of the grave, it denotes success in your\nundertakings, that you will rise in the world, become rich, and if you are\nin love, that you will speedily marry your sweetheart. If you take another\nout of the grave, you will be the means of saving the life of a person who\nwill be a very great friend to you, and receive some unexpected legacy.\n=Grain.=--To dream you see any kind of grain and that one gathers it,\nsignifies profit and gain. =Games.=--To dream one plays at ball or top,\nsignifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury.\nTo leap, run, or dance, signifies prosperity in affairs; but to dance\nwithout music, foretells want of money. =Garlic.=--For a man to dream he\neats garlic, signifies he shall discover hidden secrets and meet with some\ndomestic jars. Yet to dream he has it in the house, is good. =Gibbet.=--To\ndream you see a person hanging on a gibbet, is a sign of damage and great\naffliction. =Girdle.=--To dream that you are girt with an old girdle,\nsignifies labor and pains. A new girdle signifies honor. =Gin.=--To dream\nof drinking gin, forebodes short life and many changes will happen very\nsuddenly, which will be chiefly very pleasant, but that they will end with\ndissatisfaction. =Gondola.=--If a female dreams she is sailing in a\ngondola, she will speedily marry a person who will make her happy. If a\nman dream he is in a gondola, in smooth water, it is an excellent dream;\nbut if the water be muddy or troubled, it denotes much strife. =Guns.=--To\ndream you see people firing off guns or cannon, augurs that the dreamer\nwill experience much adversity. To dream that they are firing at you,\nshows that you will be exposed to many perilous dangers, such as\nshipwreck, assassination, or loss of liberty. If you are firing at them\nyourself, it foretells that you will be involved in a lawsuit that will\nprove prejudicial to you.\n\n=Hay.=--To dream you cut it, signifies that you will have great influence\nin society. To dream of raking it together, denotes that you will stand at\nthe head of assemblies. =Hills.=--To dream you are traveling over high\nhills and wading through great difficulties, having lost your way, shows\nyou shall meet with assistance and have good counsel in your difficulties.\n=Hail.=--To dream you are in a hailstorm, presages great sorrow in life.\nIf you are in love, it forewarns you against marrying your present\nsweetheart, who will prove of very bad temper and make you miserable.\n=Hair.=--For a man to dream his hair is long, like a woman\u2019s, signifies\ncowardice and effeminacy, and that the person dreaming will be deceived by\na woman. To dream one sees a woman without hair, signifies famine, poverty\nand sickness. To see a man bald and without hair, signifies the contrary.\n=Hands.=--If any one dreams that his hands are comelier and stronger than\nordinary, he will be employed in some important affairs, which he will\nbring to a happy issue. If one dreams that his hand is cut off, or that it\nhas grown lean and dry, or hath been burnt, he will grow poor. If a woman\ndreams thus, she will lose her husband, or her eldest son, or fall into a\ndecay. If any one dreams that he works with his right hand, it is a sign\nof good fortune to him and his family. If with the left hand, that denotes\nbad luck. To dream the hand is hairy, signifies trouble and imprisonment.\n=Hanged.=--To dream of seeing people hanged, or that you are going to be\nhanged yourself, denotes that you will rise above your present condition\nby marriage. =Hat.=--To dream your hat is torn or dirty, signifies damage\nand dishonor. But to dream you have a hat on that pleases you, signifies\njoy, profit, and good success in business. =Hogs\u2019 Bristles.=--To dream\nthat you have hogs\u2019 bristles, signifies great and violent dangers.\n=Horns.=--To dream one hath horns on his head, signifies dominion,\ngrandeur and royalty. To dream you see a man with horns on his head,\nsignifies he is in danger both of the loss of his person and estate.\n=Horses.=--To dream of horses is a particularly good sign; inasmuch that\nif any one dreams that he is mounted on a stately horse, full of mettle,\nnimble and well-harnessed, he will have a handsome, noble and rich wife,\nprovided the horse be his own. To dream one sees a horse running,\nsignifies prosperity and the accomplishment of one\u2019s desires. To dream of\nriding on a tired horse, shows one shall fall desperately in love. To\ndream you see a horse dead, is a sign that stagnation will take place in\nyour business, with some losses; but these may be overcome if the horse be\nwell in flesh and has not died a natural death. =Hunger.=--To dream one is\nunusually hungry, and that his appetite craves sustenance, shows he will\nbe ingenious, laborious and eager in getting an estate, and will grow\nrich. =Husbandmen.=--To see yourself become a husbandman in your dream,\nshows you shall meet with great toil, yet after awhile become rich. If you\ndream you are ploughing, it denotes success, and, to single persons,\nspeedy marriage; and if the fields be full of flowers, it is a sign of\nmuch happiness. =Hatred.=--To dream of hatred or being hated, whether of\nfriends or enemies, is ill. =Heaven.=--To dream of heaven, and that you\nare there, signifies grandeur and glory. =Head.=--To dream you have a\ngreat head, or a head bigger than ordinary, and very highly raised, that\nsignifies dignity, esteem. If a sick person dream thus, it prognosticates\nboth the headache and violent fever. If one dreams his head is cut off by\nrobbers and murderers, that signifies loss of children, relations, estate\nor wife; and to the wife so dreaming, the loss of her husband. To dream\nthat one cuts off another\u2019s head, signifies assurance of effecting\nbusiness, or revenge upon your enemies. To dream you cut off the head of a\npullet, or a green goose, signifies joy and recreation. To dream one hath\nthe head of a lion or wolf, or some other cruel beast, it is a good sign\nto the dreamer. To dream one hath the head of a dog, horse, or ass, or\nsuch four-footed beast, is servitude, pain and misery to the dreamer. To\ndream one hath a bird\u2019s head, argues one shall not stay long in his\ncountry. If one dreams that he is careful to comb and trim his hair, it is\na sign he shall dispose well of his business. To dream you wash your head,\nsignifies deliverance from danger. =Hen.=--To dream that you hear hens\ncackle, or that you catch them, signifies joy, profit and assurance of the\ndispatch of business. To dream that you are turned into a hen, signifies\ndisquiet. To dream that you see a hen lay eggs, signifies gain. To see a\nhen with her chickens, signifies loss or damage. To dream that a hen\ncrows, signifies sadness and trouble. =Hornet.=--To dream of hornets,\nshows you will have to do with people who will assault and discredit you.\n=House.=--To dream of building a house is a good omen; in love, that your\nsweetheart is good-tempered and faithful, and will make you very happy; to\ndream you see a house on fire, foretells hasty news. If it be your own\nhouse that is destroyed, the news will be bad. If your enemy\u2019s house, it\nwill be good. =Hunting.=--To dream you are hunting and that the game is\nkilled, shows much trouble through the pretensions of false friends, but\nthat you will discover them and overcome all their machinations.\n\n=Ice.=--To dream of ice is a favorable omen. To the lover it shows your\nsweetheart is of an amiable temper and faithful. To dream you are sliding\nor skating on the ice, denotes that you will pursue some unprofitable\nconcern and be much worried by your engagements. =Invasion.=--For a maiden\nto dream of invasion, is a sign that some evil-disposed person will\nendeavor to lead her astray; to a man in business, it denotes much\ncompetition; to a mechanic, loss of his situation. =Intrigue.=--To dream\nyou are connected in an intrigue, is ominous of evil. =Infant.=--If an\nunmarried woman dreams of an infant, it prognosticates that she will go\nthrough some trouble, but for a man to dream of infants, is good.\n=Inn.=--To dream of being in an inn, is a very unfavorable dream. It\ndenotes poverty and want of success in undertakings; expect soon to be\nyourself, or some of your family, committed to prison. If you are sick, it\ndenotes you will never recover. To the tradesman it shows loss of trade\nand bad servants. =Inquest.=--To dream of being at an inquest, denotes\nprosperity; to dream that you are the subject on which the inquest is\nheld, prognosticates that you will come into prosperity by the death of\nsome rich person; to dream an inquest is held on the body of a friend is\nalso good to the dreamer. =Idiot.=--If any one dreams he is turned idiot,\nor mad, and is guilty of public extravagancies, he shall be long-lived, a\nfavorite, and gain pleasure and profit by the people. =Image.=--To dream\nof an image or statue, signifies children, and the will and affections of\nthe dreamer. =Infernal Things.=--If any one dreams that he sees the devil,\nor any other infernal spirit or representation, it is a very bad dream,\nbringing along with it to those sick, death, and to the healthy,\nmelancholy, anger and violent sickness. =Iron.=--For one to dream that he\nis hurt with iron, signifies that he shall receive some damage. To dream\nthat one trades with a stranger in iron, signifies losses and misfortune.\n=Idol.=--To dream you see persons worshiping at an idol, betokens a change\nof affairs and much for the better. To dream you worship an idol, is a\nsign of merriment, such as going to balls, parties or excursions, pleasant\njourneys and the like. If a sick person has this dream, they will have a\nspeedy recovery. =Ignominy.=--For any one to dream they suffer ignominy,\nshows he will be unjustly accused of having done wrong, and that he will,\nafter a little, take a sudden rise in the world. =Illumination.=--It is a\ncertain sign of war when persons dream of seeing a city illuminated. To\ndream your own house is illuminated, betokens much quarrelling among\nrelatives. =Injury.=--To dream you receive an injury, signifies that you\nhave many friends--no enemies. If you dream of inflicting injury, you will\nboth receive and dispense blessings. =Ink.=--If you dream of black ink,\nyou will become involved in some disgraceful scheme. If you dream of red\nink, good news awaits you.\n\n=Jollity.=--To dream of jollity, feasts and merry-making, is a good and\nprosperous dream, and promiseth to the dreamer great preferment.\n=Jessamine.=--To dream of this beautiful flower, foretells good luck. To\nlovers, it is a sure sign they will be speedily married. =Jeopardy.=--If\nyou dream that you are in jeopardy, it will be very fortunate for you. If\na person so dreaming be in business, it foretells success and great\nprofit. =Jubilee.=--To dream that you are at a jubilee, is a sure sign\nthat you will have a fortune left you by some rich relations.\n=Jockey.=--If a female dreams she sees a jockey riding at full speed, she\nwill have an offer of marriage made her very unexpectedly. For a man to\ndream he rides with, or sees a jockey riding at a race, denotes a sudden\ngood turn in his affairs. =Jug.=--For one to dream of drinking out of a\njug, is a sure sign of going on a journey. If the jug be large, the\njourney will be long; if small, the journey will be short; and so, if the\nliquid drank be pleasant, so will the journey, and if unpleasant, the\njourney will be full of troubles. =Juniper.=--It is unlucky to dream of\nthe juniper, especially if the person who so dreams be sick. But to dream\nof gathering juniper berries, if it be in winter, denotes prosperity.\n=Joy.=--To dream of joy and festivity, is a token of good for such as\nwould marry, or it betokens enjoyment for those fond of society. To the\nsad and fearful it announces absence of heaviness and fear. =Juniper\nBerries.=--To dream of these, signifies that the person so dreaming will\nshortly arrive at great honors and become a great person. To the married\nit foretells the birth of a male child. =Jail.=--If you dream of seeing\nothers in jail, you will be deprived of your own liberty. If you dream of\nbeing imprisoned, you will be elevated to a high station in life and\nincrease your number of friends. =Jewels.=--To dream of possessing jewels,\nsignifies that you are on the road to happiness. =Jury.=--If you dream of\nbeing tried by a jury, you will lose your sweetheart, and gain the\naffections of another on a voyage. If you dream of being acquitted by a\njury, you will shortly meet with interesting and romantic adventures.\n\n=Kill.=--To dream you kill a man, signifies assuredness of business. To\ndream you kill your father, is a bad sign. To dream you are killed,\ndenotes loss to him whom you dreamed has killed you. =Keys.=--To dream of\nkeys is favorable to a person in trade, and to a sailor, they denote some\ngift, and that the dreamer will become rich. To dream of finding a key,\ndenotes an addition to your estate. If you are married, it foretells the\nbirth of a child. If you give another a key, you will be speedily married.\nIn love, keys betoken faithfulness and a good tempered sweetheart.\n\n    To dream your keys are gone or lost\n    Denotes that you\u2019ll be vexed or crossed.\n\n=Knives.=--To dream of knives is a very unpropitious omen. It betokens\nlawsuits, poverty, disgrace, strife and a general failure in your\nprojects. In love, it shows that your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and\nunfaithful, and that if you marry you will live in enmity and misery.\n=Kissing.=--For a man to dream of kissing a young maid, and that she\nvanishes away before he can accomplish his desire, denotes that the next\nday he shall see great store of good cheer. To dream you kiss a person\ndeceased, signifies long life. =Kite.=--To dream of your seeing a kite,\nshoweth you shall be in danger of thieves and robbers.\n\n=Ladder.=--To dream you ascend a ladder, signifies honor. But to dream you\ndescend a ladder, betokens damage. =Lamb.=--To dream that you feed or\nbring a lamb to the slaughter signifies torment. To dream that you see a\nlamb, or young kids, signifies extraordinary comfort. =Leaping.=--To dream\nyou are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign that you will\nencounter many difficulties in your present pursuits, and that your\nsweetheart will not marry you. =Legs.=--To dream that your legs are scabby\nor itchy, signifies fruitless perplexity and care. To dream one hath a\nwooden leg, signifies the alteration of condition, from good to bad, and\nfrom bad to worse. =Letters.=--To dream you receive letters, is\ndemonstrative of your being beloved by a person of the opposite sex, who\nis very much your friend. To dream of writing letters, shows success in\nenterprises. =Leopards.=--Dreaming of leopards, foretells honor.\n=Lettuce.=--To dream that one eats salads made of lettuce, and other herbs\nthat may be eaten raw, signifies trouble and difficulty in the management\nof affairs. =Lemons.=--To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your\nfamily and uneasiness on account of children. They announce the death of\nsome relation and disappointment in love. =Lion.=--To dream of seeing this\nking of beasts, denotes that you will appear before your betters, and that\nyou will be promoted to some lucrative office, accumulate riches, and\nmarry a woman of great spirit. It argues success in trade and prosperity\nfrom a voyage by sea. =Lookingglass.=--To dream of looking in a glass,\ndenotes children to the married and to the unmarried it promises a lover\nspeedily. =Lechery.=--To dream of lechery, denotes to the dreamer a spell\nof sickness. =Leapfrog.=--For a man to dream he plays at leapfrog is bad.\nFor many causes, troubles and vexations will soon overtake him. If a\nmaiden has this dream, it signifies that her lover is inconstant. =Leap\nYear.=--To dream of a leap year is one of the best and most lucky dreams.\nEverything you undertake about this time will prosper and your efforts\nwill be fourfold successful. It is like good to male and female.\n=Leeward.=--For a captain or seafaring man to dream his vessel drifts\nleeward, is ominous of a storm. =Land.=--If a man dreams he hath good\nlands well enclosed with pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will\nhave a handsome wife. But if the land seems spacious and not enclosed,\nthat denotes pleasure, joy and riches. If he dreams that the said\nunenclosed lands have fair gardens and fountains, fields, pleasant groves\nand orchards adjoining thereto, that signifies that he will marry a\ndiscreet, chaste and beautiful wife, and that she will bear him handsome\nchildren. If he dreams the land is sown with wheat, that signifies money\nand profit, with care and industry. But if he dreams it is sown with any\nkind of pulse, that denotes affliction and trouble. =Lantern.=--He that\ndreams he sees a lantern with a light in it, extinguished, that signifies\nunto him sadness, sickness and poverty. =Laurel.=--To dream you see a\nlaurel tree is a token of victory and pleasure, and if you be married, it\ndenotes the inheritance of possession by your wife. To dream one sees or\nsmells laurel, if it be a woman, she shall bear children. If a maid, she\nwill be suddenly married. =Law.=--As to matters of law, to dream of\nplaces, of pleading, judges, attorneys, &c., signifies trouble, expense\nand revealing of secrets. If a sick man dreameth he obtains a suit, he\nshall come to a better estate. =Lizard.=--To dream that one sees a lizard,\nsignifies ill-luck and misfortune by secret enemies. =Logs.=--To dream\nthat one is cleaving a log is a sign that strangers shall come to the\nparty dreaming. =Light.=--To dream you see a great light is a happy\npresage. It denotes that you will attain great honors and become very\nrich. In love, it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition, that you\nwill marry well, have children and be very happy. =Lightning.=--To dream\nof lightning without tempest, and falling near, without touching the body,\nsignifies change of place. If a man dreams he saw lightning fall below\nhim, it will hinder his traveling. But if you dream that you are all\nburned and consumed with lightning, it is death to the dreamer.\n=Lilies.=--To dream that one sees, holds, smells lilies out of their\nseason, it signifies that the hope of the thing desired will be\nfrustrated. But the same dream of lilies in their season is good.\n=Linen.=--To dream you are dressed in clean linen, denotes that you will\nshortly receive some glad tidings. That your sweetheart is faithful, and\nwill marry. If it is dirty, then it denotes poverty, and disappointment in\nlove. =Lioness.=--Dreaming of seeing a lioness is good to the rich or\npoor. Marriage is also hereby signified. Those that have children upon\nthis dream shall lose them. But if you dream that she destroys you it is\ndeath to the dreamer. For persons at sea to dream of this animal is a sign\nof storm. =Lean.=--If one dreams he is grown lean and wasted, he will be\ndisturbed and have suits at law, or some other ill business that will\noccasion the loss of his estate, or else he is in danger of falling sick.\nNevertheless, if a woman dreams the tongue grows less, it signifies unto\nher honors, wisdom, prudence and discretion. =Lice.=--To dream that you\nare lousy and that you are killing a great number of them, is a very good\nomen. It denotes great riches to the dreamer. They also portend\ndeliverance from enemies, and that you will overcome much slander and\nmalice. =Lips.=--To dream that one hath red, handsome lips, is a sign that\nyour friends enjoy their health. And to have them dry and chapped, the\ncontrary. =Lying.=--To tell a lie in a dream is not good, except by\nplayers and jesters, who practise it, and deceive people. =Lake.=--To\ndream of a peaceful lake, denotes content. To dream of gazing into a lake,\ndenotes an access of fortune from an unexpected source. To dream of\nfloating on a lake, signifies to glide through life without trouble and\nwith many friends. =Legacy.=--To dream of receiving one, denotes losing\nwhatever you own that is in the hands of another, involving you in\nlitigation, debt, unhappiness and trouble. =Laughing.=--To dream of\nlaughing violently, betokens sorrow and weeping. It also denotes change of\ncircumstances and friends. =Love.=--To dream of being in love, denotes\nthat you are not susceptible. If you dream of another loving you, you will\npass through life alone and unsought. =Lamp.=--To dream of a burning lamp,\nsignifies prosperity. To dream of a lamp suddenly extinguished, signifies\nthe death of a near friend. =Losses.=--To dream you lose something on\nwhich you set great value, denotes that you will hear of something which\nwill give you great pleasure. If you dream of losing money, you will\nreceive a gift from some one which will astonish and please you. To dream\nthat you have lost some part of your dress, foretells you that there is\nsome one intending to confer some favor on you.\n\n=Malice.=--To dream that some one bears you malice, foretells a pleasant\nprospect in your worldly affairs; and that you will be advanced to some\nimportant station either by marriage, if you are not married, or if so,\nthrough the influence of friends. =Mansion.=--To dream that you inhabit a\nmansion, is not good; expect some calamity happening either to yourself,\nor some relative, or lover. =Maid.=--To dream you obtain a young maid,\nsignifies joy. To dream you take away a maid by force, signifies sorrow.\n=Markets.=--To dream of markets filled with goods and folks, is a good\ndream to those that traffic. But riding to market signifies a short\nvoyage. If in a storm, the voyage will be difficult and the success of\nyour voyage doubtful. If in fair weather, the result will be the contrary.\n=Marriage.=--To dream you are married, is ominous of death, and very\nunfavorable to the dreamer. It denotes poverty, a prison, and misfortune.\nTo dream you assist at a wedding, is the forerunner of some pleasing news\nand great success. To dream of lying with your newly married husband or\nwife, threatens danger and sudden misfortunes and also that you will lose\npart of your property. To the sailor, it argues storm and shipwrecks with\na narrow escape from death. =Milk.=--To dream you drink milk, is an\nextraordinary good sign. And to dream you see breasts of milk, signifies\nprofit. To dream you are carrying milk is a good sign, but if you fall and\nspill it, misfortune will befall you, from which it would be difficult to\nextricate yourself. =Mad.=--To dream you are mad, and that you are in\ncompany with mad people, is very good to the dreamer. It promises long\nlife, riches, happy marriage, success in trade and good children. If you\nare a farmer, some accident will happen to a part of your live stock, but\nyou will have plentiful crops. If you are in lawsuit, it will determine\ngreatly in your favor. =Mice.=--To dream of mice, denotes prosperity,\nsuccess in love, and a happy marriage. For a married woman to dream of\nmice, it is a token that she will be with child shortly and that the fruit\nof her womb will become very rich and powerful. =Midwife.=--To dream you\nsee a midwife, is a revealing of secrets, and signifies hurt. To those who\nare kept by force, to dream of a midwife, signifies liberty. If a woman\nthat is not with child dreameth often of seeing her, it forebodeth she\nshall have a fit of sickness, which shall be long and continuous.\n=Martyr.=--If one dreams he dies for religion, that man will arrive at\ngreat honor. It signifies also that his soul will be happy hereafter.\n=Meat.=--To dream that you see the meat you have eaten, signifies loss and\ndamage. =Measles.=--If any one dreams he hath the measles, it denotes he\nshall gain profit and wealth, but it shall be with infamy. =Mire.=--\n\n    To dream you wade in mire and stubble,\n    Foretelleth surely toil and trouble,\n    Yet perseverance will not fail\n    O\u2019er toil and trouble to prevail.\n\n=Monkeys.=--To dream of these mischievous creatures, is ominous of evil.\nThey announce deceit in love, unfaithfulness in the married state,\nundutiful children, malicious enemies, and an attack by thieves.\n=Mountains.=--To dream you see steep and craggy mountains, presages\ndifficulties in accomplishing your designs. If you ascend them and gain\nthe top, you will be successful in whatever you undertake, become very\nrich, and arrive at great honors in the state. To a maid, they denote that\nshe will marry a man who will become rich and powerful, and that her\nchildren will be people of consequence. =Mulberries.=--To dream of\nmulberries is of good import. To the maiden, they foretell a speedy and\nhappy marriage. To the lover, constancy and affection in his mistress.\nThey also denote wealth, honors and many children. They are particularly\nfavoring to sailors and farmers. =Music.=--To dream you hear delicious\nmusic is a very favorable omen, promising joyful news from a long absent\nfriend. To married people it denotes sweet tempered children. In love it\nshows that your sweetheart is very fond of you, is good tempered, sincere\nand constant. Rough and discordant music foretells trouble, vexation and\ndisappointment. =Monster.=--To see a monster in the sea is not good; but\nout of the sea every fish and great monster is good. =Money.=--To dream of\nreceiving money, is a good omen. In love, it foretells a speedy marriage\nand many children. If you dream you lose money, it is a proof you will be\ndeceived in love, and be unsuccessful in some favorite pursuit. To dream\nyou are paying money, foretells the birth of a son destined to cut a great\nfigure in life. =Moon.=--To dream of the moon is a very favorable omen; it\ndenotes sudden joy, great success in love; but unfaithfulness in the\nmarried state, undutiful children, and malicious enemies. =Mother.=--To\ndream you see your own mother living, signifies joy. To see your mother\ndead, signifies misfortune. =Melons.=--To dream of melons, to sick persons\nis a prognostic of recovery, by reason of their humidity or juicy\nsubstance. =Monuments.=--If a sick person dreams of seeing monuments, he\nor she is dreaming will quickly recover. For the healthy to dream of\nmonuments is a sign of good luck. =Misery.=--Dreaming that you are in\ngreat misery on account of some calamity that has befallen either your\nsweetheart, partner in life, or a relation, denotes that you may expect\nsome important event occurring, which will be deeply interesting to you.\n=Mad Dog.=--To dream that you meet a mad dog denotes that you will be\nfortunate in any undertaking in which you are engaged, and that success\nwill crown your efforts. =Murder.=--To dream that you see a murder\ncommitted, indicates that you will shortly have the pleasure of welcoming\none whom you had not expected to see again in this world. =Murderer.=--If\nany one dreams of being a murderer be sure you will be slandered and\ncalumniated by one who has been a professed friend and admirer previously.\n=Musician.=--For one to dream of being a musician, who understands nothing\nof the art of music, is an indication that the dreamer will have peace and\ncomfort in the domestic state.\n\n=Nakedness.=--To dream you see a man naked, signifies fear and terror. To\ndream you see a woman naked, signifies honor and joy, provided she be fair\nskinned and handsome. But if she is crooked, old, wrinkled or otherwise\nill made, and black withal, it signifies shame, repentance and ill luck.\n=Nightmare.=--To dream of being ridden by the nightmare is a sign that a\nwoman so dreaming, shall be domineered over by a fool. =Night-walks.=--To\ndream of walking in the night, signifies trouble and melancholy.\n=Nutmegs.=--To dream of nutmegs is a sign that many changes will overtake\nyou. =Navigation.=--If one dreams that he is sailing in a boat and\nrecreating himself without fear, he will have comfort and success in his\naffairs, but if the water be tempestuous, it falleth out contrarily. To\ndream of being in a ship or boat, and in danger of oversetting or\nshipwreck, it is a sign of danger unless the party be a prisoner or\ncaptive, and in that case it denotes liberty and freedom.\n=Night-birds.=--To dream of any kind of night-birds, as the owl, bittern\nand bat, is ominous, and those who have such dreams should undertake no\nbusiness on the day following. He that travels by sea or land, and sees in\nhis dream any of these birds, will fall into a great tempest or into the\nhands of thieves. =Nightingale.=--To dream of the nightingale signifieth\ngood work, and principally wedding. =Nine-pins.=--To dream of playing at\nnine-pins is a sign of quarreling; if successful, you will get the better\nof your adversary; if the reverse, you will be worsted. =Night-hag.=--For\na woman to dream of a night-hag, denotes that she will be much slandered\nby some one whom she deems her friend. For a man to dream of this\nnonentity, is a sign that some woman is endeavoring to do him an injury.\n=Neigh.=--To dream you hear horses neigh, augurs that you will have new\nand powerful friends, who will do you much service. =Negroes.=--It is not\ngood to dream of negroes, unless they be singing or dancing, or otherwise\nmaking merry. To dream of seeing negroes in a church is ominous of evil.\n=Nose.=--To dream one has a fair and great nose is a good to all, for it\ndenotes prosperity in affairs, and acquaintance with rich persons.\n=Nosegays.=--To dream of gathering and making nosegays is unlucky, showing\nthat our hope shall wither as flowers do in a nosegay. =Nut\nTree.=--Dreaming that you see nut trees, signifies riches and content\ngained with labor and pain. Dreaming that you find nuts that have been\nhid, signifies that you will find treasure. =Nails.=--To dream your nails\nare growing long is very good, and denotes riches, prosperity and\nhappiness; great success in love, a good, industrious husband or wife,\nwith dutiful children; it also foretells that you will suddenly receive a\nsum of money that will be of great use to you. =Nectarines.=--To dream of\nnectarines is ominous of strife between friends, of riches to the farmer\nand tradesman, of infidelity to lovers, of children to the married, of bad\nweather to the sailor, and to the poor they announce plenty and increase\nof wages. =Nuts.=--To dream you see clusters of them denotes riches and\nhappiness. To the lover, success and a good-tempered sweetheart. If you\nare gathering them, it is not a good omen, for you will pursue some matter\nthat will not turn out to your advantage. If you crack them, the person\nwho courts you, or to whom you pay your addresses, will treat you with\nindifference, or be very unfaithful. =Needle.=--For a female to dream she\nis busy with the needle, indicates that she is about to take a journey\neither of pleasure or necessity. For one of the male sex to dream he is\nusing the needle (except he is a tailor), forebodes a series of\ndistressing and unpleasant matters are about to harass and perplex him.\n\n=Olives.=--To dream you see olives, denotes happiness, and that you will\nbe successful in all your present undertakings. To the lover, they\nforetell a speedy marriage with the object of your affections. If you are\ngathering them off the trees, they announce much trouble and vexation\nthrough friends and children; to the lover, they show your sweetheart is\nunfaithful. =Onions.=--\n\n    To dream of eating onions means\n    Much strife in thy domestic scenes;\n    Secrets found out or else betrayed,\n    And many falsehoods made and said.\n\n=Oysters.=--To dream you are eating oysters, is a very favorable omen.\n=Ocean.=--To dream you are on the ocean with a woman, is a sign some\nfemale friend is deceitful, or that you are deceitful in some friends. It\nis unlucky to dream you swim, walk on, or catch fish in the season. But it\nis nevertheless lucky to dream of the ocean to any person about to go on a\njourney, unless, indeed, it be very tempestuous. =Overturned.=--If a woman\ndreams she be overturned while riding, it is ominous that she shall be\ngreatly distressed for a short time. For a man to have this dream, denotes\nthat some animal to which he is attached will sicken and perhaps die.\n=Orphans.=--Whoever dreams of orphans will receive profits or riches by\nthe hand of a stranger. For a man to dream of a female orphan, denotes\nthat his wife will be rich. To dream about orphans in any way is an\nexcellent dream to both sexes. =Office.=--To dream you are turned out of\nyour office, foretells death and loss of property. If you are in love, it\nforetells want of affection in your sweetheart and misery if you marry the\npresent object of your affection. =Oil.=--Dreaming that you are anointed\nwith oil, is good for women, but for men, denotes shame. =Olive\nTrees.=--Dreaming that you see an olive tree with olives, denotes peace,\ndelight, concord, liberty, dignity, and fruition of your desires. To dream\nthat you beat the olives down, is good for all but servants. =Oven.=--If\nyou dream that you see an oven hot, it signifies change of place.\n=Owl.=--To dream of this bird at night is a bad omen. It foretells\nsickness, poverty and imprisonment. It also forewarns you some male friend\nis perfidious. =Oxen.=--Dreaming of oxen denotes a year of plenty and\nfruitfulness. But if they appear poor and lean it threatens a year of\nscarcity and famine. To dream you feed oxen is a good sign, but to see\noxen go to water is a bad sign. =Old Man.=--For a woman to dream she is\ncourted by an old man, is a sure prognostic that she will receive a sum of\nmoney and be successful in her undertakings. For a maid to dream of it,\nshows that she will marry a rich young fellow, and have many children by\nhim, who will all become rich. =Old Woman.=--For a man to dream he is\ncourting an old woman, and that she returns his love, is a very fortunate\nomen. It prefigures success in worldly concerns, that he will many a\nbeautiful young woman, have lovely children, and be very happy.\n=Oranges.=--Dreaming that you see and cut oranges, signifies wounds, grief\nand vexation, whether they be ripe or not. =Organ.=--Dreaming that you\nhear the sound of an organ, signifies joy. =Orchard.=--To dream that you\nare in an orchard, denotes that you will become rich, that you will marry\nmuch to your advantage. For a married person to dream of being in an\norchard, shows an increase of children, who will become rich and live\nhappy. In love, it denotes affection and constancy in your sweetheart.\n=Offend.=--To dream that some one has greatly offended you, is an\nindication that you are going a long journey to some one you greatly\nesteem. If you dream that you have offended some one you love, it\nsignifies that you are about to be visited by a friend whom you have not\nseen for a long time. =Offer.=--For a female to dream that she has\nreceived an offer of love from one of the male sex, portends troubles and\nsorrows await her. For one to dream that she has rejected an offer of\nmarriage, betokens that she will be surprised with the news that a near\nrelative is dead and left her a large some of money.\n\n=Pain.=--To dream you are suffering great pain from toothache, headache,\nrheumatism, or in any part or your body, denotes that you are about to\nreceive some glad tidings from one who has been long absent from you.\n=Passion.=--To dream that you are very passionate with some one, denotes\nthat you are likely to be afflicted with some dangerous sickness, probably\nunto death. If you dream that some one is in a passion with you, it\nbetokens some good fortune is about to attend you. =Pedestrian.=--To dream\nof making a long journey on foot, betokens great hardships, false friends,\nloss of money, unhappy marriage connections and final retirement from the\nworld. =Peddler.=--To dream of a peddler, signifies that you have a false\nestimate of your friends\u2019 value, and that time will show them to be\nhypocrites. =Physician.=--To dream of a physician, signifies good in many\nforms; if he is relieving you, you have made a favorable impression where\nyou most desire it; if, as a friend, you meet him in society, look for\ntrue, happy love. =Pleasure.=--If you dream you are enjoying great\npleasure, you may expect serious disappointment and difficulty in some\nproject that engages your mind. =Puzzle.=--If you dream that you are\npuzzled with some intricate matter, and cannot unravel the mystery, be\nsure that some one is about to confer a great favor on you.\n=Ploughing.=--To dream of ploughing is good; but if the horse seems to\nsink into the ground, it portends loss of labor, dearth of corn, and ill\nharvest weather. =Pail.=--To dream of milking in a dirty pail, is not a\ngood sign. =Paper.=--To dream of paper is a good omen, but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain. =Peaches.=--Dreaming of peaches in\nseason, denotes content, health and pleasure. =Pears.=--Dreaming of pears\nwell baked, denotes great success and expedition in business.\n=Pies.=--Dreaming of making pies is joy and profit. =Pigeons.=--Dreaming\nyou see pigeons is good. =Pine Trees.=--Dreaming that you see a pine tree,\ndenotes idleness and remissness. =Pile.=--Dreaming that you pile anything\nagainst the wall, denotes assistance in business. =Poverty.=--To dream of\nbeing in poverty, signifies good to some, but cross fortune to those that\nmake commodity of their tongue and fair speech. =Prayers.=--To dream you\noffer up prayers and supplications to God, signifies happiness.\n=Predecessors.=--Dreaming of your predecessors, as grandfathers and other\nancestors, signifies care. =Pit.=--To dream of falling into a pit, shows\nthat in some way heavy misfortune is about to attend you; that your\nsweetheart is false, and prefers another. To a sailor, it forebodes some\nsad disaster at the next port you touch at. To dream you are in a pit, and\nthat you climb out of it, foreshows that you will have many enemies and\nexperience much trouble, but that you will overcome them, marry well, and\nbecome rich; to sailors, it denotes that they will experience shipwreck,\nand be cast on a foreign shore, where they will be hospitably received,\nand marry rich and handsome wives and live at ease. =Plays.=--To dream\nyou are at play, is the forerunner of good luck. It betokens great\nhappiness in the marriage state, and success in business. To a maid, it\nshows speedy marriage with a young man, who will be very successful in\nlife, and acquire riches and honors and make her happy. =Purse.=--To dream\nof finding a purse, is a very favorable omen. It denotes great happiness,\nand unlooked for prosperity. In love, it is the sure token of a speedy\nmarriage, and of being dearly beloved by the object of your affection. To\ndream you lose your purse, shows the loss of a friend. In other respects,\nit denotes that some pleasant adventure is about to happen to you, by\nwhich you will be the gainer; to the sailor, it denotes the loss of his\nsweetheart whilst at sea. =Plums.=--To dream of plums, augurs but little\ngood to the dreamer; they are the forerunners of ill luck, and show loss\nof goods and reputation. They are indicative of infidelity in lovers and\nmuch vexation in the married state. =Palm.=--If one dreams that he sees or\nsmells the palm, it signifies prosperity. If it be a woman that dreams so,\nshe shall bear children. If it be a maid, she will be suddenly married.\n=Partridges.=--Dreaming of partridges, is a sign that a man shall have to\ndo with women that are malicious, ungrateful, and void of conscience.\n=Plague.=--If any one dreams he hath the plague, it signifies his hidden\nstore will be discovered, and he will run the risk of losing it.\n=Plant.=--Dreaming that you see a plant come out of your body, is death.\nTo dream of plants quick of growth, as the vine and the peach tree,\ndenotes that the good and evil portended shall quickly happen. But trees\nthat are slow of growing, as the oak, olive, &c., show that the good or\nevil that shall happen to us shall be long in coming. =Polecat.=--If a man\ndreams he has a polecat, he shall have some ill natured woman.\n=Pond.=--Dreaming that you see a little pond, signifies the love of a\nbeautiful woman. If a woman have that dream, she shall have her design\naccomplished. To dream that your pond is dried up, signifies poverty or\ndeath. To dream that you are in a boat, upon a pond of clear water, is\nvery good, and signifies joy and success in affairs. =Pot Herbs.=--To\ndream that you see pot herbs, especially such as have a strong smell,\nsignifies a discovery of hidden secrets and domestic concerns.\n=Precipices.=--Dreaming that you see great precipices, signifies much\ninjury to person and goods. =Prisoners.=--To dream of seeing prisoners\nexecuted, is a good dream, signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience. =Paths.=--\n\n    To dream in path both straight and fair,\n    Your work doth happiness declare;\n    But crooked ways denote much ill\n    To those who have a headstrong will.\n\n=Peacock.=--To dream of seeing this beautiful bird, is a very good omen.\nIt denotes great success in trade. To a man, a very beautiful wife, much\nriches, and a good place. To a maid, a good and rich husband. To a widow,\nthat she will be courted by one who will tell her very fine tales without\nbeing sincere. It also denotes prosperity by sea and a handsome wife in a\ndistant port. =Pictures.=--To dream you are looking at beautiful\npictures, foreshows that you will be allured by false appearances into\nsome unprofitable concern, that you will waste your time on some idle\nproject, and that you will always be in pursuit of happiness without\nattaining it. In love, it denotes great pleasure in the enjoyment of the\nbeloved object. It promises a handsome wife, a good husband, and beautiful\nchildren. =Pomegranates.=--To dream of pomegranates, foretells some very\nunexpected legacy, by which you will be enabled to make a fortune. They\ndenote that your sweetheart is of good temper, sings well, and is very\nfaithful. To the married, they show an increase of riches and children,\nand great success in trade.\n\n=Quagmire.=--To dream one is falling into a quagmire, shows obstructions\nand difficulty in business. =Quails.=--Dreaming of quails signifies bad\nnews. =Quicksilver.=--To dream of this mineral is a sign of trouble,\ndiscontent and unhappiness in the married state. To the lover, it is a\nsure sign of quarrel; to the sick, a slow recovery. =Quartan.=--To dream\nof having this complaint is good, particularly to a married person.\n=Quack.=--To dream that you are under the care of quacks, is unfortunate,\nand foretells to the person dreaming that he beware of these nuisances in\nsociety. =Quinces.=--To dream of quinces, is favorable to the dreamer. If\nyou are in prison, you will be shortly liberated; if you are in trouble, a\nchange will take place that will relieve you from it; if you are sick, you\nwill soon recover; if you are in love, you will marry and become rich and\nhappy. =Quilting.=--To dream you are quilting, foretells to an unmarried\nfemale that she will soon be wedded. It is also a good and lucky dream to\na man. To be at a quilting party is good. =Quiver.=--For either sex, if\nunmarried, to dream of a quiver, is prognostic of success in love; but to\nthe married, it is a token of uneasiness to the dreamer. =Quoits.=--If\nwoman dreams she is playing at quoits, it denotes that she will have some\ndisagreeable and laborious undertaking to go through. To a man, it is a\nsign of quarreling. Quoits were always considered a harbinger of ill luck\nby the gipsies. =Quarreling.=--To dream you are quarreling, denotes that\nsome unexpected news will reach you, and that your sweetheart is about to\nbe married to another.\n\n=Radishes.=--To dream of radishes signifies a discovery of secrets or\ndomestic jars. To lovers they foretell misfortune. =Rain.=--To dream of\nbeing in a shower of rain, is particularly favorable to lovers. It denotes\nconstancy, affection and sweet temper. If it be very heavy rain,\naccompanied by thunder and lightning, then expect to be assailed by\nthieves. =Rats.=--To dream of seeing rats is a sign of having many\nenemies. If you are attacked by rats, and get the better, it betokens you\nwill overcome your difficulties. If they should tear you, and make you run\naway, then expect some heavy misfortune. =Riding.=--To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is very fortunate. If you are in trade,\nbusiness will decay. =Ring.=--To dream of a ring is favorable, if it be on\nyour finger. If you are in love, expect to be speedily united to the\nperson on whom you have placed your affections. To dream your ring falls\noff your finger, betokens evil, also the death of some near friend. To a\nwoman with child, it shows that the child with which she is pregnant will\nencounter many difficulties, and be far from being happy. To a maiden, it\nis a warning to beware of her present lover. =Roses.=--To the married,\nforetell the loss of their children. To the lover, infidelity in the\nsweetheart. =Reading.=--To dream you are reading an agreeable book, shows\nyou will be successful in love, and that you will become rich. In trade,\nit is propitious. =Ribs.=--If one dreams he hath his upper ribs broken or\nsunk, he will have some dissensions with his wife. If he dreams his lower\nribs are broken, he will be afflicted by his female relations and kindred.\nIf one dreams his limbs are grown longer and stronger than ordinary, he\nwill take delight in his wife. =Rice.=--To dream of eating rice, denotes\nabundance of instruction. =Rasp.=--Dreaming that you see a rasp, is\nunfortunate to the married. To a virgin, it is a caution for her to beware\nof her lover. To the lover, it denotes that he will travel by sea.\n=Rub.=--To dream that you are rubbing anything, denotes to the lover that\nhe will marry a very industrious girl, and be successful in business.\n=Rusk.=--To dream that you are baking them, is good; but to dream that you\nsee others bake them, is bad. =Racing.=--To dream you are running a race,\nis a token of good; presages much success in life, and that you will\nspeedily hear some joyful news. In love, it denotes that you will conquer\nall your rivals, and be happy in the union with the object of your\naffections. To dream you are riding a race, shows disappointment and\nanger, bad success in trade and in love. To a married woman, it denotes\nthe loss of her husband\u2019s affections, and that her children will be in\ntrouble. =Rouse.=--To dream you rouse a person from sleep, is good.\n=Rainbow.=--To dream you see a rainbow, denotes great traveling and change\nof fortune; it also foretells sudden news of a very agreeable nature; it\nannounces that your sweetheart is of good temper and very constant, and\nthat you will be very happy in marriage; great success in business,\nthrough the means of trading with foreign ports. =Raspberries.=--To dream\nof raspberries, foretells you of success in marriage, fidelity in your\nsweetheart, and some news from beyond the sea to your advantage.\n=Ravens.=--To dream you see a raven, is a very unfavorable omen. It\ndenotes mischief and adversity. In love, it shows falsehood; to the\nmarried, they forebode much mischief, through the adultery of your\nconjugal partner. To the sailor, they betoken shipwreck and much distress\non a foreign shore. =River.=--To dream you see a flowing river, and that\nthe waters are smooth and clear, presages happiness and success in life.\nIf the water appears disturbed and muddy, or has a yellow tinge, then it\ndenotes that you will acquire considerable riches. =Rhinoceros.=--To dream\nof this East India animal, denotes success to the man of business, but\ndisappointment in love matters. But to dream they injure you, is\nunfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one dead, you will soon\nlose a relative. =Rhubarb.=--If a person dreams that he handles good\nrhubarb, he will be taken into favor with those he was not on good terms\nwith before; but to dream of the dried Turkey rhubarb, denotes sickness.\n=Rabbits.=--To dream that you are among rabbits, denotes that, if you are\na married person, you will have a numerous family of healthy children. For\na single person to dream of being among rabbits, indicates a speedy\nmarriage. To dream you are shooting rabbits, foretells sorrow and distress\nto the dreamer. =Ragged.=--To dream you are in a ragged dress, and that\nyou are suffering from privations, indicates that you will shortly be\nraised to a higher position in society. =Rowing.=--To dream that you are\nrowing in a boat, signifies that you will be successful in love and\nbusiness. =Run.=--For a man to dream that he would run, and yet cannot\nlift up his feet, shows he hath an earnest desire to accomplish somewhat,\nwhich he will find very difficult. When a sick person dreams he runs, it\nis a good sign.\n\n=Scorpions.=--To dream you see scorpions, signifies ill luck and\nmisfortunes. =Saviour.=--To dream that you behold the Saviour of mankind\nsuffering on the cross, denotes that you will be annoyed by some vile\naspersions on your character, but will eventually vindicate yourself\nsuccessfully, and be honored and respected by all whose opinion you value.\n=Scandal.=--To dream that you are scandalized by one from whom you\nexpected different treatment, is an indication that you will be the\nrecipient of a legacy from a distant relative from whom you did not expect\nanything of the kind. =Scared.=--To dream that you are scared by some\nfrightful spectacle, denotes that you will be shortly overjoyed by hearing\nsome pleasing intelligence from one whom you dearly love.\n=Separation.=--To dream of being separated from one whom you highly esteem\nand value, betokens much enjoyment to the dreamer from an unexpected\nsource. =Sickness.=--To dream one is sick, signifies idleness and want of\nwork. To dream one comforts the sick, and prescribes them medicine,\ndenotes profit and felicity. =Sparrows.=--To dream you see sparrows\njumping about your door step, is a sign of good fortune attending any\nproject you may set your mind on accomplishing. =Spirit.=--To dream that\nyou see a spirit before you of a comely aspect, and attired in white,\ndenotes joy and consolation; but if it be deformed and black, it signifies\ndeceit and temptation to sin. =Seat.=--To dream that one has fallen from\nhis seat, and would fain get into it again signifies that whatever office\nor employment he is in, he shall be displaced from it, and not be able to\nrecover it again. =Serpent.=--To dream you see a serpent turning and\nwinding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment. It denotes also\nsickness and hatred. To dream you kill a serpent, is a sign that you will\novercome your enemies. To dream of beating serpents is very good, and if a\nserpent approaching near to do you harm, but does it not, it is a sign\nthat some ill woman shall be disappointed in her designs. =Strange\nPlace.=--To dream of being in a strange place, denotes a good legacy from\na relation while in prison. To the lover, they show inconstancy and want\nof affection in the object of your love. To the sailor, sickness on the\nnext voyage. =Starching.=--To dream you are starching linen, shows you\nwill be married to an industrious person, and you will be successful in\nlife and save money. It also shows that you are about to receive a letter\ncontaining some pleasant news. =Squirrel.=--To dream of a squirrel, shows\nthat enemies are endeavoring to slander your reputation. To the lover, it\nshows your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and much given to drinking. If\nyou have a lawsuit, it will surely be decided against you. If you are in\ntrade, sharpers will endeavor to defraud you, and you will quarrel with\nyour principal creditor. =Sleep.=--To dream you sleep or slumber, is evil\nto all, except to those who are in doubt or expectation of some danger,\nfor this delivers them from pain and care. To dream you sleep in a\nchurchyard, is death to the sick and hindrance to others. =Sold.=--To\ndream of being sold, or set up for sale, is fair to those who wish to\nchange their condition and to those who are in poverty and servitude. But\nto the rich, and the sick, and those who are placed in honor and\nauthority, it is ill. =Soldiers.=--To see soldiers in your dream, shows\ntroubles, persecution and lawsuits. To the lover, they denote that the\nobject of your affections will be obliged to quit the present place of\nresidence by command of a father, on your account. To the tradesman, they\npresage loss of goods and quarrels with creditors. To dream they are\npursuing you, shows that you will be imprisoned and meet with heavy\nlosses, and be much disliked by your rich neighbors; this is one of those\ndreams after which the dreamer is advised to change quarters.\n=Spinning.=--To dream of spinning is good, and shows a person to be\ndiligent and industrious. =Son.=--To dream that a man talks with his son,\nsignifies some damage that will suddenly accrue to him. =Statues.=--To\ndream of seeing brazen statues moving, signifies riches. But to dream you\nsee great statues moving, like monsters, denotes terror and perils.\n=Stings.=--To dream of stings, signifies grief and care. To many, they\nhave signified love and injuries by wicked persons. =Shipwreck.=--To dream\nyou suffer shipwreck, the ship being overwhelmed, is dangerous to all,\nexcept to those detained by force. To them it signifies liberty. =Single\nCombat.=--To dream of a single combat, signifies lawsuits and marriages.\n=Scratched.=--To dream of being scratched, betokens to him that is in\ndebt, that he shall acquit himself. To others it foretells hurt.\n=Sisters.=--To dream you see your deceased brothers and sisters, signifies\nlong life. =Shaving.=--To dream you are being shaved, or that your head\nhas been shaved, is a very unfavorable omen; in love, it denotes treachery\nand disappointment; and in the married state, infidelity and discord. To\nthe tradesman, it denotes loss of goods and business; to the sailor, an\nunpleasant and stormy voyage; to the farmer, it prefigures bad crops and\ndiseases amongst his live stock. =Sheep.=--To dream you see a flock of\nsheep feeding, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success. To dream you\nsee them dispersing, and running away from you, shows that pretended\nfriends are endeavoring to do you an injury, and that your children will\nmeet with persecution and great troubles. In love, such a dream shows your\nsweetheart to be fickle and little calculated to make you happy. To dream\nyou see sheep shearing, is indicative of loss of property and the\naffections of the person you love; also of your liberty. To dream you are\nshearing them yourself, shows that you will gain an advantage over some\nperson who meant to harm you, and that you will get the better of\ndifficulties and marry the object of your affection. =Supreme.=--To dream\nyou have supreme command over any place, is unfortunate, particularly if\nthe person is sick and helpless. =Surprise.=--To dream that you surprise\nany one, denotes good luck to the dreamer and great success in trade.\n=Sycamore.=--To dream you see this tree, denotes jealousy to the married;\nand to the virgin, she shall shortly be married. =Strawberries.=--To dream\nof strawberries, denotes to a woman with child a good time and a boy. To a\nmaiden, speedy marriage with a man who will become rich and make her\nhappy. To a youth, they denote that his wife will be sweet tempered, and\nbring him many children, all boys. They foretell riches to the tradesman\nand to the sailor. They are a very fortunate dream to the farmer.\n=Sun.=--To dream you see the sun shine, shows acquisition of riches, and\nenjoyment of honorable posts in the state; also success to the lover. To\ndream you see the sun rise, promises fidelity in your sweetheart and good\nnews from friends. To dream you see the sun set, shows infidelity in your\nsweetheart, and disgraceful news. To the tradesman, loss of business. To\ndream you see the sun under a cloud, foretells many hardships and troubles\nabout to befall you, and that you will encounter some great danger.\n=Swallows.=--To dream of these harbingers of summer is a very favorable\nomen. They denote success in trade and riches to the dreamer. In love,\nthey denote a speedy marriage with the object of your affections.\n=Swimming.=--To dream you are swimming, with your head above the water,\ndenotes great success in your undertakings, whether they be in love,\ntrade, sea or farming. To dream you are swimming with your head under\nwater, shows that you will experience some great trouble and hear some\nvery unpleasant news from a person you thought dead. In trade, it shows\nloss of business. =Shooting.=--To dream you are out shooting, is very\nfavorable, if you kill much game. To the lover, it shows a mistress kind\nand good humored, who will make him an excellent and notable wife. To the\ntradesman and farmer, success and riches. To the sailor, wealth acquired\nin a distant country. But if you dream you kill little or no game, then it\npresages bad luck, and disappointment in love. To dream you are shooting\nwith a bow and arrow, is a very favorable dream, particularly to the lover\nand tradesman. =Silk.=--To dream you see silk, either in pieces or for\nsewing, signifies prosperity and success in undertakings. To dream you are\nclothed in silk, foretells that you will do honors in the state, and\nbecome rich, but that you will quarrel with a rich neighbor, who will\nendeavor to do you mischief. For a married woman to dream of being dressed\nin a silk gown, shows her husband is fond of a harlot, who will go near to\nruin him. If a maiden dreams of it, she will speedily see her lover.\n=Snakes.=--To dream you see snakes and serpents, shows that you will be\nimprisoned, and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will be false; to dream you kill a snake, shows you will\novercome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or\nfarming, but unsuccessful at sea. =Swoon.=--To dream you see a person\nswoon is unfortunate to the maid. To the married, it is a sign they will\nbecome rich and prosperous. To those who are nervous it is bad.\n=Scabs.=--To dream you are covered with scabs, is the sure forerunner of\ngreat success and riches. =School.=--To dream you begin again to go to\nschool, and yet cannot say your lessons right, shows you are about to\nundertake something you do not understand. =Sea.=--To dream of walking\nupon the sea, is good to him that would travel; as also to a servant, and\nto him that would take a wife, or who hath a lawsuit. To a young man, this\ndream is love of a beautiful young woman. To a woman, it signifies she\nleads a desolate life; for the sea is like a harlot, because it hath a\nfair appearance and show, but in the end brings many to evil. To dream you\nwalk in the sea, or on the shore, or catch fish, is a bad dream.\n=Ship.=--To dream of seeing ships freighted with goods, denotes\nprosperity. If you dream of seeing ships endangered by a tempest, it\nsignifies fear. =Shoes.=--To dream of losing one\u2019s shoes and walking\nbarefooted, signifies pain in the feet and sickness. It also denotes loss\nof reproaches to those of a sanguine complexion, and more especially if\nthis dream comes to you in the first days of the moon. =Silver.=--If one\ndreams he gathers up silver, it signifies deceit and loss; to see silver\neaten, denotes great advantage; to eat silver, signifies wrath and anger.\n=Spectre.=--Few dreams are more certain of good luck to the dreamer, than\nto dream of spectres. It prognosticates business to the merchant, work for\nthe artist and mechanic, and marriage to the maiden. =Sepulchre.=--To\ndream of a sepulchre is a sign of great good to the dreamer.\n=Singing.=--If any one dreams he sings, it signifies he will be affected\nand weep. To dream you hear singing or playing upon instruments, signifies\nconsolation in adversity, recovery of health to those that are sick. To\ndream you hear birds sing, signifies love, joy and delight.\n=Small-pox.=--To dream one is full of the small-pox, denotes profit and\nwealth without infamy. =Snow.=--To dream you see the ground covered with\nsnow is a good omen. =Stars.=--To dream you see stars clear and fair, is\ngood for a traveler, for it shows prosperity and advantage to a voyage or\njourney, also good news; but, on the contrary, to see them dusky and\npale-colored, signifies all sorts of mischief. Seeing the stars vanish and\ndisappear, signifies poverty, vexation and disturbing cares to those that\nare rich, and death to those that are poor. =Splendor.=--To dream that you\nare surrounded with great splendor, and living luxuriously, is an\nindication that you will soon be laid on a bed of affliction and perhaps\ndeath. =Stealing.=--To dream that you are accused of stealing something,\nis an indication that you will have a handsome present given you.\n=Storm.=--To dream that you are exposed to a violent storm, denotes that a\nreconciliation is about to take place between you and one with whom you\nhave been at variance. =Stockings.=--For a female to dream that she is\ndarning stockings, denotes that she will be gladdened by hearing of\nsomething to her advantage. For a person to dream of having lost his or\nher stockings, is an indication that trouble and distress will assail the\ndreamer. =Success.=--To dream that you have been successful in some\nenterprise in which you have been engaged, denotes that you will hear of\nsome person\u2019s death whom you highly esteemed. =Swan.=--To see a swan in\nyour dream, signifies joy, revealing of secrets and health to the dreamer;\nbut if it sings, it foretells death. =Sweethearts.=--If a man dreams of\nhis sweetheart that is absent, and she seems to be more fair than usual,\nit is a sign she is chaste or constant; but if she looks black or sickly,\nyou may be assured she hath broken her faith and has become altogether\ninconstant. =Swine.=--In dreams, swine denote lazy persons, who think of\nnothing but how to prey on other people\u2019s goods; they signify also\ncovetous persons. To dream you trade in swine, signifies sickness. To\ndream you see a sow with a litter of pigs, denotes distress.\n\n=Talking.=--To dream that you are talking loudly of some matter or person\nwith whom you are not on the most friendly terms, signifies that troubles\nare about to visit you. To dream that some person is talking about you, is\nan indication that you will be gladdened by having a proposal made to you\nthat will be to your interest to agree to. =Tandem.=--To dream that you\nare driving tandem, denotes that you will be prosperous in business and in\nthe marriage state. =Tears.=--To dream that you are shedding tears from\nsome heavy trouble, denotes that you will be speedily removed to a\nsituation in which you will enjoy much happiness. =Tradesmen.=--To dream\nyou see those you employ at work, signifies that they are honest in their\ndealings with you. To dream you work yourself, betokens a happy contented\nlife. =Thorns.=--To dream you walk upon thorns, signifies destruction to\nyour enemies. =Throat.=--If any one dreams his throat is cut, he will be\ninjured by some person or other. If he dreams he cuts the throat of\nanother, he will do himself some great injury. =Torch.=--To dream of\nholding a burning torch in the hand, is a good sign to those that are\nyoung, for it signifies they shall enjoy their loves, accomplish their\ndesigns, overcome their enemies, and gain honor and good from all persons.\nTo dream you see a torch extinguished or darkened, signifies sadness,\nsickness and poverty. =Torture.=--To dream that you are undergoing some\ntorture from false accusation, denotes that you will be blessed with much\nhappiness and contentment in your future life. =Telescope.=--For a person\nto dream of looking through a telescope at some distant object, is an\nindication that the dreamer will shortly receive a letter from a friend\nin a far-distant country. =Thirst.=--If any one dreams his thirst is\nquenched, and that he has drank his fill of water, if the water appeared\nclear and acceptable to him, he will live joyfully and become very\nwealthy; if the water be troubled, lukewarm, stinking or dirty, he will\nend his days in affliction. =Tamarinds.=--To dream of tamarinds denotes\nvexation and uneasiness through a woman, bad success in trade, a rainy\nseason and news from beyond the sea that is disagreeable. In love, it\ndenotes disappointment. =Teeth.=--To dream you lose a tooth, denotes the\nloss of some friend by death, and that troubles and misfortunes are about\nto attend you. To dream you cut new teeth, denotes the birth of a child,\nwho will make a great figure in the world. =Thunder.=--To dream of\nthunder, signifies affliction to the rich, but to the poor repose.\n=Traveling.=--If one dreams that he is traveling through a wood and that\nhe sticketh in the briars and bushes, it betokens many troubles and\nhindrances. To travel over high hills and mountains and rocky places,\nsignifies advancement, but with much difficulty obtained. =Trees.=--To\ndream that you fell trees, signifies loss; to dream you are climbing them,\nsignifies future honor. To see withered trees, deceit; to see trees bear\nfruit, gain. =Tempests.=--To dream you are in a storm or tempest, shows\nthat you will after many difficulties arrive at great happiness; that you\nwill become rich and marry well. For a lover to dream of being in a\ntempest, denotes that he will have rivals, over whom, after a great deal\nof vexation, he will triumph. It also foretells that you will receive some\ngood news from a long absent friend, who will overcome many difficulties.\n=Thunder and Lightning.=--To dream you hear thunder and see lightning is a\nvery good dream. It denotes success in trade, good crops to the farmer and\na speedy and happy marriage to the lover. If you are soliciting a place,\nyou will obtain it; if you have a lawsuit, you will gain it. It also\nindicates speedy news from a far distant country. =Toads.=--To dream you\nsee these venomous reptiles, argues ill to the dreamer. It shows enemies\nand disappointment among friends. To the lover, it denotes infidelity in\nyour sweetheart. In trade, loss by swindlers and spoiling of goods. To\ndream you kill a toad, denotes that you will overcome an enemy and\ndiscover a person who is robbing you and in whom you place great\nconfidence. =Tombs.=--To dream of being amongst the tombs denotes a speedy\nmarriage, great success in business and the gaining of a lawsuit, also the\nbirth of children and unexpected news. =Trumpet.=--To dream you hear the\nsound of a trumpet is a bad omen, and denotes troubles and misfortunes. To\nthe tradesman, it presages loss of business; to the farmer, bad crops; to\nthe lover, insincerity in the object of his affections. =Tarts.=--To dream\none makes tarts, signifies joy and delight. =Treasure.=--To dream you find\na treasure in the earth, is very ominous. It shows that you will be\nbetrayed by some one whom you make your bosom friend; that your sweetheart\nis unfaithful and grossly deceives you; and should you not be able to\ncarry it away, then it denotes that you will have some very heavy loss,\nand that you will be waylaid by robbers, who will ill-treat you.\n=Turnips.=--To dream of being in a turnip field, or that you see this\nwholesome vegetable, denotes acquisition of riches, and high employments\nin the state. To the lover, they augur great fidelity and an exceedingly\ngood temper in your sweetheart, and that if you marry you will be very\nhappy, have fine children and thrive in the world. =Turkey.=--To dream you\nsee a turkey strutting about, is a sign you will overcome your enemies. To\ndream you see or are amongst a drove of turkeys, betokens success in your\nundertakings about this time. To dream of dead turkeys denotes that you\nwill encounter trouble that you will soon surmount. =Tumbler.=--To dream\nyou break a tumbler, is prognostic of secrets being discovered that have\nlong remained a mystery. To drink from a clear tumbler, denotes health and\nactivity; to drink from a dirty one, the reverse. =Tops.=--To dream you\nare spinning tops is ill. =Teapots.=--If a person dream of teapots they\nwill soon form new friendships.\n\n=Urn.=--To dream of this vessel has a happy signification, for it\nforetells the marriage either of yourself, a near relative or a dear\ncompanion. =Ugly.=--For a person to dream of being ugly or deformed,\nindicates that the dreamer will be surprised by hearing from a long absent\nfriend a communication of a pleasing and gratifying nature.\n=Undertaker.=--For a single person to dream of seeing an undertaker enter\nthe house, and attend to the mournful obsequies of a funeral, denotes that\nthe dreamer will be married in a short time. For a married person to dream\nof seeing an undertaker attending to his duties, is an indication that his\nfamily will be increased in a short time.\n\n=Vermin.=--To dream that you are surrounded and attacked by vermin, some\ncreeping over your body, and others assailing you in various parts of your\nframe, signifies that you will be gladdened and rejoiced to learn that you\nhave become entitled to the possession of considerable property through\nthe death of a relative. =Villainy.=--To dream that you are exposed to\nsome villainy by one from whom you expected different conduct, denotes\nthat you will be astonished to learn that you have had a fortune left to\nyou by one who was no relation. =Virgin.=--A virgin dreaming that she has\nlost her virginity, signifies great danger. =Vow.=--To dream that you have\nmade a vow and broken it, is bad to all. =Velvet.=--To dream you trade\nwith a stranger in velvet and other silks, is a sign of profit and joy.\n=Vote.=--To dream you are voting is bad, particularly to sick persons. For\na newly-married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign her first child\nwill be a boy, who will come to great honors. =Vulture.=--To dream of the\nvulture is unfortunate to all except sick persons, to whom it foretells a\nspeedy recovery. =Victuals.=--To dream of victuals and that you eat a\nvariety of them, signifies loss. =Vines.=--To dream of vines denotes\nhealth and wealth to the dreamer. To dream you are a vine, foretells\nabundance and fertility; for which we have the example of Astyages, King\nof the Medes, who dreamed that his daughter brought forth a vine, which\nwas a prognostic of the grandeur, riches and felicity of Cyrus, who was\nborn of her body after this dream. =Vinegar.=--To dream you drink vinegar,\nsignifies sickness. =Violin.=--To dream one plays or sees another play\nupon the violin or other musical instrument, signifies good news and\nconcord between man and wife, master and apprentice, brother and sister,\n&c. =Vomit.=--To dream of vomiting, whether of blood, meat or phlegm,\nsignifies to the poor, profit, to the rich, hurt. =Venison.=--To dream\nabout venison, denotes change in affairs. To dream you eat of it,\nsignifies misfortune. =Volcano.=--To dream about volcanos forbodes liberty\nto a person in prison, and peace and happiness to those out of it.\n\n=Walking.=--To dream one is walking in the dirt, or among thorns,\nsignifies sickness. To dream one is walking in the water, or some torrent,\nsignifies adversity and grief. =War.=--To dream of war and affairs of war,\nsignifies trouble and danger. =Washing.=--For a man to dream he washes or\nbathes himself in baths or hot-houses, signifies riches, prosperity and\nhealth to the sick. But to dream he washes or bathes himself contrary to\nthe common custom, or in his clothes, is evil and betokeneth sickness and\ngreat danger. To dream that you were in fountains, ponds or current water,\nand in fair and clear floods, is good, but not that you swim, for that is\na sign of danger and sickness. Washing is a sure sign of removal.\n=Wedding.=--For a man that is sick to dream that he is wedded to a maid,\nshows he shall die quickly. If any one dream he is wedded to a deformed\nwoman, it signifies discontent. If to a handsome woman, joy. =Wife.=--If a\nman dreams he sees his wife married to another, it denotes change of\naffairs or condition. If a woman dreams she is married to another man, it\nis the same. =Want.=--For a person to dream that he or she comes to sudden\nwant in temporal things, denotes that an unexpected good fortune awaits\nthem by the death of a wealthy relative or the success of some speculation\nor business bargain. =Water.=--To dream you are drinking water, denotes\ngreat trouble and adversity. In trade loss of business and being arrested;\nto the lover, it shows your sweetheart is false, prefers another, and will\nnever marry you. =Watermill.=--To dream of being in a water-mill is a\nfavorable omen. To the tradesman it denotes great increase of business; to\nthe farmer, abundant crops; in love, success, a rich sweetheart and a\nhappy marriage. =Wasps.=--To dream that you are stung by wasps, signifies\nvexation and trouble by envious persons. =Weasel.=--To dream of weasels,\nshows a man in love with some ill-natured woman, by whom he will be\nensnared, or some domestic who will cajole his master by subtlety.\n=Whales.=--If you dream you are sitting on a whale\u2019s back, it is good. As\nthe whale is the greatest of the water animals, so the one so dreaming\nwill become a great person and live in peace many years. =Wild Boar.=--The\nwild boar, in dreams, signifies a furious enemy, well furnished with all\nthings necessary. And thus, if any one dreams he has hunted or taken a\nwild boar, he will chase or take some enemy that hath the same qualities\nas the wild boar. =Wrist.=--To dream that your wrists are broken, is very\ngood. It foretells that you will marry your present lover and be very\nhappy. =Walls.=--To dream you are walking on a crazy, old and narrow wall,\ndenotes that you will engage in some very dangerous enterprise that will\ncause you much trouble and vexation. If you get down without hurting\nyourself, or the wall\u2019s falling, then you will succeed. If the wall should\nfall whilst you are upon it, you will be disappointed. If you are walking\nbetween walls and the passage is very narrow and difficult, you will be\nengaged in some quarrel, or disagreeable affair, from which it will\nrequire great circumspection and caution on your part to disengage\nyourself. But if you get from between them safe, you will settle well in\nlife, marry an agreeable partner, have children and become rich and happy.\n=Weeping.=--To dream one weeps or grieves, whether it be for a friend\ndeparted or any other cause, is joy and mirth. =Wheat.=--To dream you see\nor are walking in a field of wheat, is a very favorable omen, and denotes\ngreat prosperity and riches. In love, it argues a completion of your most\nsanguine wishes and foretells much happiness, with fine children, when you\nmarry. If you have a lawsuit, you will gain it and you will be successful\nin all your undertakings. =Wood.=--To dream you are cutting or chopping\nwood, clearly shows that you will be happy in your family, and become rich\nand respectable in life. To dream you are carrying wood upon your back,\nshows that you will rise to affluence by your industry, but that your\npartner will be of a bad temper and your children undutiful. If you dream\nyou are walking or sitting alone in an extensive wood by a running stream,\nit denotes that you will quickly fall in love, and also that you will be\noften married. To dream that you are walking or sitting there with a\nworthy object of your affections, betokens your speedy union, which will\nprove so felicitous that you will be called \u201cthe happy couple.\u201d\n=Wool.=--To dream you are buying or selling wool, denotes prosperity and\ngreat affluence, by means or industry and trade. To the lover, it is a\nfavorable omen. Your sweetheart is thereby shown to be of an amiable\ndisposition, very constant and deeply in love with you. =Will.=--Dreaming\nof making your will signifies that you will live a long time in\nuninterrupted happiness and joy. For a woman with child to dream that she\nhas made her will, is unfortunate, as it denotes an unfortunate trial of\nlabor. =Wren.=--To dream of this little bird is good, as the wren is noted\nfor its innocence; the person so dreaming is certain of having a noble\nfriend. But to dream you kill it, is bad. =Walnuts.=--To dream of walnuts,\nportends difficulties and misfortunes in life. If you have children, your\neldest son will marry a woman who will make him very unhappy. In love, it\nforetells infidelity and disappointment. To the seaman, storms and\nshipwreck. To the tradesman, loss of goods and reputation through a\nconfidential servant. =Well.=--If a young man dreams that he draws water\nout of a well, it signifies a speedy marriage to a fair maid, who will\nbring him a portion. If the water be troubled, he will be disturbed by\nher, and suddenly fall sick. If he seems to give to others clear well\nwater to drink, it denotes that he will enrich them. But if the water be\ntroubled, he will afflict them. If he dreams that he sees a person fall\ninto a well, it signifies that the person dreamed of shall die quickly.\n=Wounds.=--To dream you are wounded, is a very favorable omen, especially\nif it be with a sword. To the lover, it denotes success in your amours,\nand with an agreeable partner, who will be faithful and affectionate. To\nthe tradesman, profit; and to the farmer, increase in his cattle and\nplentiful crops. To the sailor, a profitable voyage, with success in love.\n=Wager.=--To dream you have laid a wager on some matter in dispute, or on\nsome event that has to come off, denotes that you are in danger of being\nsubjected to a serious accident, and that through the interposition and\ncourage of a friend you are permitted to escape with only a slight injury.\n=Wages.=--For a workingman to dream that he has had his wages reduced,\nsignifies that he is about to be removed to a more lucrative situation. To\ndream that he has had his wages advanced, denotes that he will shortly be\nwithout employment. =Waves.=--To dream that you are on the sea-shore, and\nsurrounded by the waves, is an indication that you will be shortly placed\nin very difficult and distressing circumstances, out of which it will\nrequire all your energy and perseverance to escape. =Waltzing.=--To dream\nyou are waltzing with some agreeable partner, is an indication that you\nwill be subjected to some unpleasant treatment from one from whom you\nexpected nothing but kindness. =Widow.=--For a newly married woman to\ndream that she is a widow, signifies that she will be blessed with comfort\nand happiness in domestic life and be the mother of dutiful and obedient\nchildren. =Wig.=--For one who has no lack of hair to dream that he wears a\nwig, signifies that he will be compelled to stand before a judge in a\ncourt of law, either as a criminal or as a witness. =Witchcraft.=--For a\nperson to dream that he has been to visit a supposed fortune-teller,\ndenotes that misfortune shall befall him, unpleasantness in his family,\ntreachery in his place of business and deception in those he supposed his\nbest friends. =Worms.=--To dream that you see a great number of worms in\nyour path, is an indication that the death of either yourself or of some\none dear to you may shortly be expected. For a young woman to dream that\nshe has trod upon a worm that was crawling in her path, signifies that the\nengagement between her and her lover will be in danger of being broken off\nthrough the machinations of a jealous rival, but eventually a\nreconciliation will be accomplished. =Wreath.=--For a young woman to dream\nthat her head is adorned with the bridal wreath, is an indication that\ndeath will shortly visit either herself or some one dear to her.\n=Wreck.=--To dream that you are witnessing the wreck of some vessel at a\nshort distance from the sea-shore, is an indication that one in whom you\nreposed great confidence will deceive you. =Writing.=--\n\n    Dreaming of writing ever means nerve;\n    \u2019Twill grant or deny, will give or refuse.\n\n=Yew Tree.=--To dream of a yew tree, is an indication of the funeral of a\nvery aged person, by whose death the dreamer will derive some benefit or\nprotecting hand among the relations of the deceased person. =Yeast.=--If a\nyoung housewife dreams that she is kneading bread with yeast, she may\nconclude that she will be the mother of a large family of children.\n\n=Zodiac.=--To dream of the twelve signs of the zodiac, shows to a man that\nhe will be a great traveler, and sail once around the world. To a woman,\nthat she will wed a foreigner who is deeply skilled in astronomy.\n\n\n\n\nPHYSIOGNOMY.\n\n\nThe principles of philosophy demonstrate that the human features are a\nreflex of the mental and physical workings of the system, as it is from\ntime to time operated upon by surrounding circumstances, and they\ntherefore act an important part in depicting the lights and shades of\ntemperament and disposition. So, also, the color and nature of the hair\nare indicative of character. In the pages immediately following will be\nfound fully presented prognostics to be drawn from the latter, as also\nfrom the forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin, and the whole\nassemblage of features.\n\nThe gentleman whose hair is very black and smooth, hanging far over his\nshoulders, and in large quantity, is mild, but resolute; cool until\ngreatly provoked; not much inclined to excesses; constant in his\nattachments; not liable to many misfortunes.\n\nA lady with the same kind of hair is moderate in her desires of every\nkind; addicted to reflection; not violent in love, but steady in her\nattachments.\n\nIf the hair is very black, short and curling, the gentleman will be very\nmuch given to liquor; somewhat quarrelsome and of unsettled temper;\ndesirous of riches, but will often be disappointed in his wishes therein.\n\nA gentleman with dark brown, long and smooth hair, is generally of a\nrobust constitution; obstinate in his temper, eager in his pursuits, a\nlover of the fair sex, fond of variety in his ordinary pursuits,\nexceedingly curious, and of a flexible disposition. He will live long,\nunless guilty of early intemperance.\n\nA lady with the same kind of hair will be nearly the same as the\ngentleman, but more steady in her conduct and attachments, especially in\nlove. She will be of a good constitution, have many children, enjoy good\nhealth and a reasonable share of happiness.\n\nIf the hair is short and bushy it will make very little alteration in the\ngentleman or lady, but that the gentleman will be more forward to strike\nwhen provoked and the lady will be more of a scold.\n\nA gentleman with light brown, long, smooth hair, is of a peaceable, even,\nand rather generous temper; will prevent mischief if in his power, but\nwhen very much provoked will strike furiously; but is afterwards sorry for\nhis passion and soon appeased; strongly attached to the company of ladies\nand will protect them from insult. Upon the whole, he is in general of an\namiable character, affable and kind.\n\nA lady with the same kind of hair is tender-hearted, but hasty in temper;\nneither obstinate nor haughty; her inclination to love never unreasonable;\nher constitution will be good, but she will be seldom very fortunate.\n\nA gentleman with fair hair will be of a weak constitution; his mind given\nmuch to reflection, especially on religious matters. He will be assiduous\nin his occupation, but not given to rambling; very moderate in his amorous\nwishes; but he will not live to an old age.\n\nA lady with this colored hair is on the contrary of a good constitution;\nnever to be diverted from her purpose; passionate in love affairs, never\neasy unless in company, and delights in hearing herself praised,\nespecially for beauty; delights in dancing and strong exercises and\ncommonly lives to a great age.\n\nA gentleman with long red hair is cunning, artful and deceitful; he is\nmuch addicted to traffic of some kind, restless in his disposition,\nconstantly roving and desirous of enjoying the pleasures of love. He is\ncovetous of getting money and spends it foolishly; he is indefatigable and\nno obstacle will induce him to forsake his enterprise until he has seen\nthe issue of it. He is inclined to timidity, but by reflection may correct\nit and pass for a man of courage.\n\nA lady with the same kind of hair, is glib of tongue, talkative and vain;\nher temper is impatient and fiery and will not submit to contradiction;\nshe has a constant flow of spirits and is much given to the pleasures of\nlove. However delicate her person may seem, her constitution is generally\nvigorous; but she seldom lives to see old age, for obvious reasons. Her\npromises are seldom to be depended upon, because the next object that\nengrosses her attention makes her forgetful of everything that preceded\nit, and she will always resent any disappointment she may meet with.\n\nIf the hair falls off at the fore part of the head, the person will be\neasily led, though otherwise rational, and will often be duped when he\nthinks he is acting right; he will likewise frequently meet with\ndisappointments in money matters, which will either hurt his credit, or\nforce him to shorten his expenses.\n\nIf the hair falls off behind, he will be obstinate, peevish, passionate\nand fond of commanding others, though he has no right, and will grow angry\nif his advice is not followed. However preposterous, he will be fond of\nhearing and telling old stories and tales of ghosts and fairies, but will\nbe a good domestic man and provide for his family to the utmost of his\npower.\n\nIf the hair forms an arch around the forehead, without being much\nindented at the temples, both the lady and the gentleman will be innocent,\ncredulous, moderate in all their desires, and though not ardent in their\npursuits, will still be persevering. They will be modest, good-natured,\nprosperous and happy.\n\nIf the hair is indented at the temples, the person will be affable,\nsteady, good-natured, prudent and attentive to business, of a good\nconstitution and long-lived.\n\nIf the hair descends low upon the forehead, the person will be selfish and\ndesigning; of a surly disposition, unsociable and given to drinking. He\nwill be addicted to avarice and his mind will be always intent upon the\nmeans of carrying on his schemes.\n\nThe forehead that is large, round and smooth, announces the lady or\ngentleman to be frank, open, generous and free, good-natured and a safe\ncompanion; of a good understanding and scorns to be guilty of any mean\naction; faithful to his promises, just in his dealings, steadfast in his\nengagements and sincere in his affections; he will enjoy a moderate state\nof health.\n\nIf the forehead is flat in the middle, the gentleman or lady will be found\nto be vainglorious and but little disposed to generosity; very tenacious\nof his honor, but brave; he will be fond of prying into the secrets of\nothers, though not with the intention of betraying them; he will be fond\nof reading newspapers, history, novels, and plays; ardent, and very\ncautious of his own reputation.\n\nIf there be a hollow across the forehead, in the middle, with a ridge as\nof flesh, above, and another below, the gentleman will be a good scholar,\nand the lady a great manufacturer, or attentive to whatever occupation she\nmay be engaged in. They will be warm in argument or debate; they will be\nfirm and steady in any point they fix their minds upon and by their\nperseverance will generally carry their object; yet they will meet with\nmany crosses, but will bear them with patience.\n\nIf the forehead juts out immediately at and over the eyebrows, running\nflat up to the hair, the gentleman or lady will be sullen, proud,\ninsolent, imperious and treacherous; they will be impatient when\ncontradicted, apt to give great abuse, and to strike if they think they\ncan do it with advantage. They will also impose upon any person, never\nforgive any injury and by their misconduct make themselves many enemies.\n\nIf the temples are hollow, with the bones advancing towards the forehead\non either side, so that the space between must be necessarily flat, with a\nsmall channel or indentation rising from the upper part of the nose to the\nhair, the gentleman or lady will be of a daring and intrepid temper,\nintroducing themselves into matters where they have no business, desirous\nof passing for wits, and of a subtle and enterprising nature; greedy of\npraise, quick in quarrel, and of a wandering disposition; very lewd, and\nfull of resentment when they feel their pride hurt. In short, they delight\nin mischief, riots, &c.\n\nIf the eyebrows are very hairy, and that hair long and curled, with\nseveral of the hairs starting out, the gentleman or lady is of a gloomy\ndisposition, litigious and quarrelsome, although a coward; greedy after\nthe affairs of this world, perpetually brooding over some melancholy\nsubject and not an agreeable companion. He will be diffident, penurious,\nand weak in his understanding; never addicted to any kind of learning. He\nwill pretend much friendship, but will make his affected passion\nsubservient to his pecuniary designs, and given to drinking, &c.\n\nIf a gentleman or lady has long eyebrows, with some long hairs, they will\nbe of a fickle disposition, weak-minded, credulous and vain, always\nseeking after novelties and neglecting their own business; they will be\ntalkative, pert, and disagreeable in company; very fond of contradiction,\nand will not bear disappointment patiently; and also much addicted to\ndrinking, &c.\n\nIf the eyebrows are thick and even, that is, without any or few starting\nhairs, the lady or gentleman will be of an agreeable temper, sound\nunderstanding and tolerable wit; moderately addicted to pleasure, fearful\nof giving offence, but intrepid and persevering in support of right;\ncharitable and generous, sincere in their professions of love and\nfriendship and enjoy a good constitution.\n\nIf the eyebrow is small, thin of hair, and even, the lady or gentleman\nwill be weak-minded, timorous, superficial and not to be depended on; they\nwill be desirous of knowledge, but will not have patience and assiduity to\ngive it the necessary attention; they will be desirous of praise for\nworthy actions, but will not have the spirit or perseverance to perform\nthem in that degree of excellence that is requisite to attract the notice\nof wise men. They will be of a delicate constitution.\n\nIf the eyebrow is thick of hair towards the nose and goes off suddenly\nvery thin, ending in a point, the lady or gentleman will be surly,\ncapricious, jealous, fretful and easily provoked to rage; in their love\nthey will be intemperate.\n\nThe eye that is large, full, prominent and clear, denotes a lady or\ngentleman to be of an ingenious and candid disposition, void of deceit and\nof an even, agreeable and affable disposition; modest and bashful in love,\nthough by no means an enemy to its gratification; firm, though not\nobstinate; of a good understanding, of an agreeable but not brilliant wit;\nbut clear and just in argument; inclined to extravagance and easily\nimposed upon.\n\nThe eye that is small, but advanced in the head, shows the lady or\ngentleman to be of a quick wit, sound constitution, lively genius,\nagreeable company and conversation, good morals, but rather inclined to\njealousy; attentive to business, fond of frequently changing his place,\npunctual in fulfilling his engagements, warm in love, prosperous in his\nundertakings and generally fortunate in most things.\n\nThe lady or gentleman whose eyes are sunk in the head is of a jealous,\ndistrustful, malicious and envious nature; deceitful in their words and\nactions, never to be depended upon; cunning in overreaching others,\nvainglorious and associates with lewd and bad company.\n\nThe gentleman or lady who squints, or have their eyes turned awry, will be\nof a penurious disposition, but punctual in their dealings.\n\nA black eye is lively, brisk and penetrating, and proves the person who\npossesses it to be of a sprightly wit, lively conversation, not easily\nimposed upon, of a sound understanding, but if taken on the weak side, may\nbe led astray for a while.\n\nA hazel eye shows the person to be of a subtle, piercing and frolicsome\nturn, rather inclined to be arch, and sometimes mischievous, but\ngood-natured at the bottom. He will be strongly inclined to love and not\nover delicate in the means of gratifying that propensity.\n\nA blue eye shows the person to be of a meek and gentle temper, affable and\ngood-natured, credulous and incapable of violent attachment; over-modest,\ncool and undisturbed by turbulent passions, of a strong memory, in\nconstitution neither robust nor delicate, subject to no violent impression\nfrom the vicissitudes of life, whether good or bad.\n\nA gray eye denotes the person to be of weak intellect, devoid of wit, but\na plain, plodding, downright drudge, that will act as he is spirited by\nothers. He will be slow in learning anything that requires attention; he,\nhowever, will be just to the best of his understanding.\n\nA wall eye denotes the person to be of a hasty, passionate and\nungovernable temper, subject to sudden and violent anger; haughty to his\nequals and superiors, but mild and affable to his inferiors.\n\nA red, or as it is vulgarly called, a saucer eye, denotes the person to be\nselfish, deceitful and proud; furious in anger, fertile in the invention\nof plots and indefatigable in his resolution to bring them to bear.\n\nA nose that comes even on the ridge, flat on the sides, with little or no\nhollow between the eyes, declares the man to be sulky, insolent,\ndisdainful, treacherous and self-sufficient; if it has a point descending\nover the nostrils, he is avaricious and unfeeling, vainglorious and\nignorant; peevish, jealous, quick in resentment, yet a coward at the\nbottom.\n\nA nose that rises with a sudden bulge a little below the eyes, and then\nfalls again into a kind of hollow below, is petulant and noisy, void of\nscience and of a very light understanding.\n\nThe nose that is small, slender and peaked, shows the person to be of a\nfearful disposition, jealous, fretful and insidious, ever suspicious of\nthose about him, catching at every word that he can interpret to his own\nadvantage to ground his dispute upon and also very curious to know what is\nsaid and done.\n\nThe nose that is small, tapering round in the nostrils and cocked up,\nshows the person to be ingenious, smart, of a quick apprehension, giddy\nand seldom looking into consequences; but generous, agreeable, so as to\ncarefully avoid giving offence; but resolute in doing himself justice when\nhe receives an injury.\n\nThe lips that are thick, soft and long, announce the person to be of weak\nintellect, credulous and slightly peevish, but by a little soothing easily\nbrought back to a good humor. He is much addicted to the pleasures of\nlove, and scarcely moderate in his enjoyment of them; yet he is upright in\nhis conduct and of a timorous temper.\n\nIf the under lip is much thicker than the upper, and more prominent, the\nperson is of a weak understanding, but artful, knavish and given to\nchicanery to the full extent of his ability.\n\nThe lips that are moderately plump and even, declare the person to be\ngood-humored, humane, sensible, judicious and just, neither giddy nor\ntorpid, but pursuing in every particular a just medium.\n\nThe lips that are thin, show the person to be of a quick and lively\nimagination, ardent in the pursuit of knowledge, indefatigable in labor,\nnot too much attached to money, eager in the pursuit of love, more brave\nthan otherwise and tolerably happy in life.\n\nThe lips that are thin and sunk inwards, denote the person to be of a\nsubtle and persevering disposition, everlasting in hatred and never\nsparing any pains to compass his revenge; in love or friendship much more\nmoderate and uncertain.\n\nThe chin that is round, with a hollow between it and the lip, shows the\nperson to be of a good-humored disposition, kind and honest; he is sincere\nin his friendship and ardent in his love; his understanding is good and\nhis genius capacious. If he has a dimple it makes him better.\n\nThe chin that comes down flat from the edge of the lips and ends in a kind\nof a chisel form, shows the person to be silly, credulous, ill-tempered\nand greedy of unmerited honors; captious, wavering and unsteady; he will\naffect great modesty in the presence of others, though he will not scruple\nto do the vilest actions when he thinks himself secure from discovery.\n\nThe chin that is pointed upwards shows the person to be much given to\ncontrivances. However fair he may speak to you, you can never depend on\nhis friendship, as his purpose is only to make you subservient to his own\ndesigns. In love his generosity will be of the same stamp.\n\nOf the face in general, the person whose features are strong, coarse and\nunpleasant to the eye, is of a selfish, brutal, rough and unsocial\ndisposition; greedy of money, harsh in expressions, but will sometimes\nfawn with a bad grace to gain his ends.\n\nThe face that is plump, round and ruddy, denotes the person to be of an\nagreeable temper, a safe companion, hearty, jovial, fond of company, of\nsound principles and a clear understanding, faithful in love, &c.\n\nThe face that is thin, smooth and even, with well-proportioned features,\nshows the person to be of a good disposition, but penetrative and active;\nsomewhat inclined to suspicion, yet of an agreeable conversation;\nassiduous in the pursuits of love and strongly addicted to the delights of\nlove.\n\nA face whose cheek bones jut out with thin jaws, is of a restless and\nthinking disposition; fretful, &c.\n\nA face that is pale by nature, denotes a timorous disposition, but greatly\ndesirous of carnal pleasures.\n\nA face that is unequally red, whether streaked or appearing in spots,\nshows the person to be weak both in body and mind, yielding easily to\naffliction and sickness.\n\nA face blotched shows the person to be addicted to drinking and vice,\nthough frequently possessing the art to conceal the inclination therefor.\n\nThe head that is large and round shows that the person has a tolerable\nunderstanding, but not near so good as he imagines.\n\nThe head that is small and round, or if the face comes tapering, shows the\nperson of an acute, penetrating disposition, much given to bantering\nhumor, but of great sensibility.\n\nThe head that is flat on either side, and deep from the face to the back,\nshows the person to be of a good understanding, deep penetration, great\nmemory and of an agreeable temper; of slow belief and not easily imposed\nupon.\n\nBig and broad ears signify a simple man, of no understanding; sluggish,\nslothful and of an ill memory. Small ears denote a good understanding; but\nvery small ears signify nothing but mischief and malice. Those that have\nthem well proportioned, and neither too small nor too large, are persons\nof good understanding, wise, discreet, honest, shamefaced and courageous.\nThose that have them somewhat long and thin, are bold, impudent,\nunlearned, gluttons and very proud and scornful.\n\nA thin, soft beard denotes a person lustful and effeminate, of a tender\nbody, fearful, delicate and inconstant.\n\nA red beard denotes first, a placid forehead, and the person is courteous\nand friendly, but not without some craft; is a very great flatterer, very\nsoon angry and affects consequence.\n\nA dark beard is good, but the possessor is usually of a melancholy\ndisposition; yet it denotes a person to be ingenious, sincere, thoughtful,\nconstant, cordial, bold and fit to make a warrior.\n\nA pale beard denotes a phlegmatic person, who is temperate enough and\ntolerably prudent.\n\nHe that hath a decent beard, handsome and thick of hair, is good-natured\nand reasonable in all things.\n\nThose who have little or no beard, but a small mustache, are of an ill\nhumor, but very luxurious.\n\n\n\n\nCHIROMANCY, OR PALMISTRY.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe practical part of chiromancy is that which gathers probable\npredictions from lines, the places of the planets in the hand, and from\nthe notes and characters everywhere posted and marked out in the hands and\nfingers. These lines and their planetary relevancy are thus defined:\n\n     1. _Cardiaca_, or the line of life.\n     2. _Hepatica_, or the love\u2019s line; also called the natural mean.\n     3. _Cephalica_, or the line of the head and brain.\n     4. _Thoralis_, or the table line.\n     5. _Restricta_, or the dragon\u2019s tail.\n     6. _Via Solis_, or the sun\u2019s way.\n     7. _Via Lactea_, or the milky way.\n     8. _Via Saturnia_, or Saturn\u2019s way.\n     9. _Cingulum Veneris_, or the girdle of Venus.\n    10. _Via Martis_, or the way of Mars.\n    11. _Mons Veneris_, or the mound of Venus.\n    12. _Cavea Martis_, or the cave of Mars.\n    13. _Mons Jovis_, or Jupiter\u2019s mount.\n    14. _Mons Saturn_, or Saturn\u2019s mount.\n    15. _Mons Solis_, or the sun\u2019s mount.\n    16. _Locus Luna_, or the moon\u2019s place.\n    17. _Mons Mercurii_, or the mount of Mercury.\n    18. _Mensa_, or the table containing the part of fortune.\n    19. _Pollex_, or the thumb.\n    20. _Index_, or the forefinger.\n    21. _Medius_, or the middle finger.\n    22. _Annularis_, or the ring finger.\n    23. _Auricularis_, or the little finger.\n\nThe question often arises as to whether judgment should be given by the\nright hand or the left. It is certain that in one hand the lines and other\nsignatures are very often more manifest, and are thus more plain to be\nseen than the other, as well in the hands of gentlemen as ladies. That\nhand is the proper one (in both sexes) which shows and exhibits the lines\nthereof most clearly, and abounds with a series of characters and signs,\nyet so as that the other, whose lines are more obscure, may pay its\ncontribution. If in both hands they consent, and appear to be fair and\ncomely, they declare a constancy of fortune and health. The cause of\ndiversity is that he who is born in the daytime, and has a masculine\nplanet (the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars) lord of his geniture, bears the\nmore remarkable signs in his right hand, especially when the sign\nascending is also masculine. The contrary happens to those born at night,\nas often as a feminine planet predominates. If both hands agree, it must\nbe that in a diurnal nativity the feminine planets rule, or that there\nfalls out a mixture of masculine and feminine; so in the nights by the\ncontrary reason.\n\n\nI.--OF THE LINE OF LIFE. THIS IS CALLED CARDIACA, OR THE HEART LINE.\n\nThis being broad, of a lively color, and decently drawn in its bounds,\nwithout intersections and points, shows the party long lived and subject\nto few diseases.\n\nIf slender, short and dissected with obverse little lines, and deformed\neither by a pale or black color, it presages weakness of the body,\nsickness and a short life.\n\nIf orderly joined to the natural mean, and beautified in the angle with\nparallels, or a little across, it argues good wit, or an evenness of\nnature.\n\nIf the same have branches in the upper parts thereof, extending themselves\ntowards the natural mean, it signifies riches and honor.\n\nIf these branches be extended towards the restricta, it threatens poverty,\ndeceits, and unfaithfulness of servants.\n\nIf in this line there be found some confused lines, like hairs, be assured\nof diseases, and they happen in the first age. When they appear below, if\ntowards the cavea, in the middle; if towards the patica, in the declining\nage.\n\nIf this line be anywhere broken, it threatens extreme danger of life in\nthat part of the age which the pace of the breach shows. For you may find\nout the dangerous or diseased years of your age; this line being divided\ninto seventy parts, you must begin your number and account from the lower\npart thereof, near the restricta, for the number falling where the branch\nis determines the year.\n\nIf the character of the sun (as commonly it is made by astrologers) be\never found in this line, it presages the loss of an eye; but, if two such\ncharacters, the loss of both eyes.\n\nA line descending from the vital, beneath the congress of it and the\nhepatica, to the tuberculum of Saturn, shows an envious man, who rejoices\nat another\u2019s calamity, the sight of others concurring. This also\nfrequently shows a most perilous Saturnine disease in that wherein it\ntouches the vital, and it is much worse if it cut the same.\n\nBut such a line passing from the vital to the annular, to the ring finger,\npromises honors to ensue, from or by the means of some famous lady.\n\nThe vital lines being thicker than ordinary at the end under the fore\nfinger, denotes a laborious old age.\n\nA line passing through the vitals to the cavea of Mars, foretells of\nwounds and fevers, and also of misfortunes in journeys.\n\n\nII.--OF THE HEPATICA, OR NATURAL MEAN.\n\nThis line being straight, continued, and not dissected by obverse little\nlines, denotes a healthful body.\n\nIf it be short or broken, and reach not beyond the concave of the hand, it\nshows diseases and shortness of life.\n\nBy how much more the same is produced, by so much longer the life may be\nwarranted.\n\nIf cut at the end thereof by a small intervening line, it threatens\npoverty in old age.\n\nIf in the upper part it be distant from the vital by a great space, it\nshows distemperatures of the heart, as palpitations, syncope, &c.\n\nThis also shows prodigality, especially if the table be broad.\n\nIf tortuous (that is, if it wind and turn several ways), unequal, of a\ndifferent color and dissected, it argues an evil constitution of the\nliver, and thence diseases, proceeding from the weakness thereof.\nCovetousness also, and a depravity both of nature and wit, especially if\nit be under the region of the middle finger, and near the cardiaca,\nthereby making a short or narrow triangle.\n\nIf decently drawn and well colored, it is a sign of a cheerful and\ningenious disposition.\n\nIf it has a sister, it promises inheritances.\n\nIf continued with some little hard knots, it denotes manslaughters, either\nperpetrated, or to be committed, according to the number of these said\nknots.\n\nIf therein a cross be found under the region of the middle finger, it\nannounces death to be at hand.\n\nIf it terminates with a fork towards the ferient, it is a sign of depraved\nwit, of hypocrisy, and of evil manners.\n\nWhen it tends to the mensa, it is a token of a slanderous tongue and of\nenvy.\n\nWhen it projects a remarkable cleft through the vital to the mons veneris,\nand the sister of Mars, especially if the same be of a ruddy color, it\nwarns you to beware of thieves, and also intimates fraud and deceit of\nenemies.\n\nThis cleft likewise insinuates a most vehement heat of the liver,\nproceeding from the rays of Mars; so that the life becomes in danger,\nseeing that the line of life is dissected.\n\nThis line having some branch, yet such a one as nevertheless seems to be\ncontinued, shows that the manner of life will be, or is already changed;\nand this in a declining age if the breach be under the ring finger; but,\nif under the middle finger, in strength of years.\n\n\nIII.--OF THE CEPHALICA.\n\nThis is called the line of the head and brain, which, if (arising from its\nplace in a due proportion) it connects the lines of the liver and heart in\na triangular form, have a lively color, and no intersection falling out\nbetween, declares a man of admirable prudence, and one of no vulgar wit\nand fortune.\n\nBy how much more decent the triangle is, so much the better shall the\ntemperature, wit and courage be; but if it be obtuse, it argues an evil\ndisposed nature, and a man that is rude; if no triangle, far worse.\n\nThe superior being a right angle, or not very acute, foretells the best\ntemperature of the heart; but when it is too acute, especially if it touch\nthe line of life, upon the region of the middle finger, it argues\ncovetousness.\n\nThe left angle, if it be made upon the natural mean in the ferient, and be\na right angle, confirms the goodness of intellect.\n\nBut when the cephalica projects unequal clefts to the mons lun\u00e6, thereby\nmaking unusual characters, in the gentleman it denotes weakness of the\nbrain, and dangerous sea voyages. But in the lady\u2019s hand it shows frequent\nsorrows of mind, and difficulties in child bearing.\n\nEqual lines (thus projected) presage the contrary in both sexes, viz., in\ngentlemen, a good composure of the brain, and fortunate voyages by sea; in\nladies, cheerfulness and felicity in child bearing.\n\nThis one thing is peculiar to the cephalica: if it project a cleft or a\nmanifest star, upwards to the cavea martis, it signifies boldness, &c. But\nif it let fall the same downwards, thefts, &c.\n\nThe cephalica, jointed to the dragon\u2019s tail by a remarkable concourse,\npromises a prudent and a joyful age.\n\nThe same drawn upwards in the shape of a fork, towards the part of\nfortune, signifies subtlety in managing affairs, and also craftiness\neither to do good or evil.\n\nIf in this said fork a mark appears resembling the part of fortune, as it\nis noticed by astrologers, that gives an assurance of riches and honor to\nsucceed by ingenuity and art.\n\n\nIV.--OF THE THORAL LINE.\n\nThis is also called the line of fortune; it is termed likewise the mensa,\nbecause it makes up the table of the hand. Which said line, when it is\nlong enough, and without incisures, argues a due strength in the principal\nmembers of man, and also constancy; the contrary if it be short, crooked,\ncut or parted.\n\nIf it terminate under the mount of Saturn, it shows a vain fellow.\n\nIf projecting small branches to the mount of Jupiter, it promises honors.\n\nIf there it be naked and simple, it is a sign of poverty and want.\n\nIf cutting the mouth of Jupiter, cruelty of mind and disposition, with\nexcessive wrath.\n\nIf it projects a branch between the fore and middle finger in a gentleman,\nit threatens a wound in his head; in a lady, danger in child bearing.\n\nThree lines ascending upwards from this line, viz., one to the space\nbetween the middle and fore finger, a second to the space between the\nmiddle and ring finger, and a third to the space between the ring and the\nlittle finger, argues a contentious person in many respects.\n\nA little line only thus drawn to the interval or space between the middle\nfinger and the ring finger, sorrow or labor.\n\nIf annexed to the natural mean, so that it makes an acute angle, it brings\nsorrow and labor.\n\nIf the natural mean be wanting, and the thoral annexed to the vital, it\nthreatens decollation or a deadly wound.\n\nIf no mensa at all, it shows a man malevolent, contentious, faithless,\ninconstant and of base condition.\n\nConfused little lines in the mensa, denote sickness; if under Mercury, in\nthe former part of the age; under the sun in the prime thereof; under the\nmiddle finger, in old age.\n\nWhen in this line there are certain points observed, they argue strength\nof the genitals and burning lust.\n\n\nV.--OF THE CAUDA DRACONIS, OR THE RESTRICTA, AND THE LINES ARISING\nTHEREFROM.\n\nIf this be double or treble, and drawn by a right and continued track, it\npromises a good composure of the body.\n\nThat line which is nearest the hand continued, and of a good color,\nassures great riches.\n\nBut if the same line be cut in the middle, crooked and very pale, it\nannounces debility of body and want of all things.\n\nA cross or star upon the restricta, foreshadows tranquility of life in old\nage.\n\nIf there be a star, simple or double, or any lines near the tuberculum of\nthe thumb, in ladies, they denote misfortune or infamy.\n\nA line running from the restricta through the mons veneris, presages\nadversities, either by the means of some kindred or a wife.\n\nA line extending from the restricta to the mons lun\u00e6, denotes adversities\nand private enemies; if it be crooked, it doubles the evil, and betokens\nperpetual servitude.\n\nSuch a line also being clear and straight, and reaching as far as the\nregion of the moon, foretells many journeys by sea and land.\n\nIf it extend to the tuberculum of the fore finger, it informs the\ngentleman that he shall live in a foreign country in great estimation.\n\nIf to the hepatica, it argues honest behavior, and prolongs life.\n\nIf to the mons solis (be it simple or double), it argues exceeding\ngoodness, and enables to govern or rule in great affairs.\n\nBy the same reason, if it pass to the mons Mercurii, it betokens the\ngentleman is of a sufficient capacity for any employment; but if it reach\nnot the mons Mercurii, but is broken about the middle and end beneath the\nmons Mercurii, that makes out a prating fellow, &c.\n\nIf directly ascending to the mons Saturni, it signifies a good position of\nSaturn in the geniture, whose decree shall shortly follow; but, if\ncrookedly towards the restricta and the hepatica especially, it shows man\nlaborious, &c.\n\n\nVI.--OF THE VIA SOLIS, OR THE SUN\u2019S WAY.\n\nThis being whole, equally drawn and well colored, promises the favor of\ngreat men and great honor; but, if dissected and unequal, the contrary,\nand exposes to divers impediments, and envy in attaining the same.\n\n\nVII.--OF THE VIA LACTEA, OR THE MILKY WAY.\n\nThis well proportioned and continued, presages that journeys will be\nfortunate both by sea and land, as ready wit and the favor of the ladies\n(Venus assenting), and of a composed and graceful speech; but if it be\ndistorted, it argues infelicity and lies; but whole and ascending to the\nlittle finger, it is a sign of happiness.\n\n\nVIII.--OF THE SATURNIA, OR LINE OF SATURN.\n\nThis being wholly and fully protracted to the middle finger, is an\nargument both of profound cogitations and likewise of fortunate events in\ncounsels and actions.\n\nCombust or deficient, an evil sign, portending many misfortunes, unless\nother positions favor it.\n\nBending backwards in the cavea of the hand, towards the ferient, in the\nform of a semi-circle, threatens imprisonment.\n\nA line drawn from the vital, through the hepatica, to the tuberculum of\nSaturn (if it touch the Saturnia), the same.\n\n\nIX.--OF THE CINGULUM VENERIS, OR THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.\n\nIf this line have a sister, it argues intemperance and lust in both sexes,\nand baseness in the gratification of lewd desires; and if dissected and\ncarefully examined, it shows losses and infamy by reason of this vice.\n\n\nX.--OF THE VIA MARTIS, THE WAY OR LINE OF MARS, OR THE VITAL SISTER.\n\nThis line (as often as it appears), augments and strengthens the things\nsignified by the cardiaca; but particularly it promises good success in\nwar, provided it be clear and red.\n\n\nSOME OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING LINES.\n\nThe quantity of lines must be wisely observed, that is, the length and\ndepth, so likewise their quality, that is, their complexion and shape,\nwhether they are crooked or straight; next their action, which is to touch\nor cut other lines. Their passion to be touched or cut of others; and\nlastly, their place and position.\n\nWe must know that the lines are sometimes prolonged until certain years of\nour age, otherwise shortened; now they wax pale, then they become plain\nand strong, and as it were luxuriate with a kind of redness, and this as\nwell in the principal as less principal lines. Again, as touching the less\nprincipal, and such as are found in the tubercula of the planets, it is\nmost certain that some do at one time quite vanish, and that at another\ntime others arise of a different shape and complexion; the cause of which\nis supposed to be no other than the various progressions of the\nalphabetical places in their nativities; that is, fortunate and\nunfortunate to the influence whereof man himself is wonderfully subject.\nThe signs of his hands are presented at different times with different\nfaces. _Such a virtue, such a love resideth in the imagination of the\ngreater world towards the lesser._ And, therefore, the most studious in\nchiromancy cannot attain the knowledge of particulars by one inspection\nonly, made to a certain year of the person\u2019s age; things that worthily\nmerit our observations, yet known or approved of by a few.\n\n\nOF THE PLANETS.\n\nThe planets also administer not a little judgment from their respective\nplaces, for if they are happy and benevolent, good things are portended,\nbut being unhappy and froward, judge the contrary. Here we must also note\nthat these planets are termed benevolent, in whose tubercula and places\nthe accustomed lines are found equal, their characters fair and\nproportionable, as a cross, stars, three or four parallel lines, ladders,\nlittle branches, a quadrangular, the character of Jupiter. But the froward\nand unfortunate are those planets whose tubercula and places are deformed\nwith troubled lines and uncouth figures; as a lame and interrupted\nsemi-circle gridirons the character of Saturn. This is to be duly observed\nin the lines of the hand. Now, as touching the planets, let us proceed\naccording to the general rules of art.\n\n\nXI.--OF VENUS.\n\nVENUS shining well and happily (that is) when in her tuberculum, she\npresents a clear star, or furrows that are red and transversely parallel,\nand so often as her tuberculum is much elevated, makes such men to be\nmerry, cheerful and luxurious; yet amorous, comely and libidinous, very\nhonest and just, with whom an uninterrupted tie of friendship once made is\npermanent.\n\nShe renders the body somewhat tall, the eyes pleasant and sparkling with\nthe splendor of beauty, full of allurement and temptation, the hair thick\nand curling; she instills a spotless and noble mind, yet oftentimes gives\nmen that are full of boasting and inconsistency. She inclines the mind to\nmusic, &c.; sometimes according to the strength of the geniture, she\nproduces priests, apothecaries, &c.\n\nBut being unfortunate, she causes lasciviousness, incontinency and\nboasting, and if you find a cross also, near the first joint of the thumb,\nit denotes an adulterer, or such a person on whom a misfortune has\nhappened in some luxurious matter. If the place of Venus be untilled, it\npoints out an effeminate, rude and sorrowful person, foolishly and\nridiculously addicted to be merry and jesting.\n\n\nXII.--MARS.\n\nMARS is fortunate, so often as his sister appears red, clear and decently\ndrawn, and when either star or cross is found in his cavea. Thus,\ntherefore, he denotes such as are bold and full of courage, stout,\nwarlike, contentious, strong and lusty; imperious; the hair for the most\npart yellow; the eyes from black waxing red and terrible. If Jupiter\nparticipate, he possesses the gall, the reins, the back, the liver, &c. If\nwith Venus, those parts of the body under her dominion. But if he be\nfroward and unfortunate, he describes men to be litigious, violent,\ndeceitful, passionate, &c.\n\n\nXIII.--JUPITER.\n\nJUPITER is happy or fortunate when in his region he exhibits signs that\nare auspicious--that is, if there be a star or double cross, parallel\nlines, or a line decently drawn from the vital to his tuberculum, &c. For\nthus he signifies men that are noble, honest, benevolent, affable,\nhonorable, merry, just, equitable, beautiful, formidable and happy, such\nas have comely eyes, thick hairs and a grave gesture; likewise such as are\nbashful, and likewise such as will keep their promises, &c. These men are\npreferred to great dignities, and solicited by many great men, and do\nhighly favor and esteem their wives, sons, honest and good men. In men,\nJupiter rules the liver, blood, ribs, lungs and gristles. But, if he is\nunfortunate, he oftentimes throws a man headlong from a great estate to\ngreat calamities; if there be half a gridiron in his tuberculum, it\nbetokens losses, especially by means of the more potent sort of women;\notherwise thus constituted, he causes grief of the heart, cramps,\ninflammations of the lungs and other diseases proceeding from wind; if a\nline transversely cut his tuberculum, and afterwards tend to the place of\nSaturn, making those little hairs, it threatens apoplexy. But, if you find\na cross especially, or a clear and red star in his tuberculum, he gives\nsplendid honors, confers riches and public rewards from great personages\nor princes.\n\n\nXIV.--SATURN.\n\nSATURN is happily placed when we find his line wholly running to his\nregion, but less happy when he presents some inauspicious characters;\nunhappily, if he shows confused and unfortunate signs; he governs the\nspleen, bones and bladder. When he is fortunate he makes men silent,\nprovident, of good and profound counsels, such as think and study much and\nare somewhat sorrowful; men that are puffed up with an ambitious spirit,\nand whose aim is honors. And these are slender of body, somewhat tall,\npale and feeble, their hair blackish, eyes hollow; they are fortunate in\ntilling of ground, and in metals of all sorts, yet more careless of their\nwives, and less addicted to the pleasures of love; foolishly laughing and\njesting, also tenacious and worldly minded, unjust, &c. But, if Saturn be\nunfortunate or froward, he makes men sorrowful, laborious, sordid, humble,\ncovetous, liars, malicious, envious, &c., and encumbered with perpetual\ngriefs and anxieties.\n\nA gross line running from the interval of the middle and fore finger to\nthe mensa, and breaking or interrupting it, denotes diseases or wounds in\nthe lower part of the body.\n\n\nXV.--SOL.\n\nIf the SUN fortunately rules, he makes men faithful, ingenious, honored,\nhigh minded, wise, humane, religious, just, moderate, aged, and such as\nalways manage their affairs honestly. He gives a body well composed, and\nadorns it with yellow hair; he governs the heart, midriff, nerves, &c.\n\nBut, if unfortunate, he gives men that are proud and highly elated,\nmanifesting their access to dignities by unjust means, boasters and\nimmodest. He brings fluxes of rheum upon the eyes, and thereby hurts both\nthem and the mouth, trembling of the heart, syncope, &c.\n\n\nXVI.--LUNA.\n\nThe MOON happy and fortunate, makes men famous, honest and honorable and\nof a large body; yet well proportioned, pleasant also, and sometimes\nvoyages by sea and walking by the sides of rivers; but, if any way\ndissenting in the other, unconstant both in life and action, yet tending\nfor the most part to the best. She rules the brain, stomach and belly, but\nif unfortunate she portends a various and inconstant kind of line,\nweakness, and increase of griefs and anxieties, she thus causes paralysis,\n&c. A commotion of the members, oftentimes an epilepsy and canker, spots\nin the body, severe colic, and whatever else proceeds from abundance of\ncold and moisture, and more especially when the lines found in the\ntuberculum of the moon do appear very pale; if there be fair and comely\nsignatures near the ferient, they denote happiness to the man in his\njourneys and messages, and in foreign countries. To the woman, felicity\nand fertility in bearing of children, ominous signs do show the contrary.\n\n\nXVII.--MERCURY.\n\nMERCURY, happy and fortunate, makes men ingenious, desirous of science,\nand seeking diligently after secrets, such as are apt for any thing,\norators, poets, philosophers, astrologicians, fortune-tellers, eloquent,\nvariable, mathematicians, and men addicted to merchandise, &c. He governs\nthe tongue and memory.\n\n\nXVIII.--THE MENSA, OR PART OF FORTUNE.\n\nThis space being great and broad, and the figure decent, declares a\nliberal man, magnanimous and of long life.\n\nBut if small and narrow, it indicates a slender fortune and fearfulness.\n\nA cross or star within it, clear and well proportioned, especially under\nthe region of the ring finger, betokens honors and dignities to ensue\nfrom, or by means of great and noble personages. If the character of\nJupiter, it then promises great ecclesiastical dignities, &c.\n\nThe same star or cross tripled, portends good fortune; but if it be cut by\nconfused little lines, the good fortune is thereby diverted, and anxieties\nand labors threatened in defending his honors, especially if they are\nunder the region of the ring finger.\n\nA cross or star in the uppermost part of the mensa, is a sign of fortunate\njourneys.\n\nThe mensa sharpened by the concourse of the thoral and cardiac lines,\npoints out deceit and danger of life.\n\nIf no mensa be shown in the hand, it shows obscurity both of life and\nfortune.\n\nGood and equal lines in this space do declare the fortune to be good, but\nif evil and decomposed they quite overthrow it.\n\nA little circle shows perfection of wit, and the obtaining of science, the\nothers assenting thereunto.\n\n\nXIX.--THE POLLEX, OR THUMB.\n\nOverthwart lines, that are clear and long underneath the nail and joint of\nthe thumb, confer riches and honor. A line passing from the upper joint of\nthe thumb to the cardiaca, threatens a violent death or danger by means of\nsome married lady. Lines much dispersed in the lower joint of the thumb,\ndescribe men that are contentious, and such as rejoice in scolding, &c. A\nline surrounding the thumb, in the middle joint, portends the man shall be\nhanged. Equal furrows drawn under the lower joint thereof, argue riches\nand possessions. If the first or second joint want incisures, it shows\ndrowsiness and idleness.\n\n\nXX.--THE INDEX, OR FORE FINGER.\n\nMany lines in the uppermost joint, and they proceeding overthwartly,\ndenote inheritances; by running so in the middle joint, an envious and\nevil disposed person.\n\nRight lines running between these joints, declare (in the ladies) a\nnumerous issue; in gentlemen, bitterness of tongue. If they are in the\nfirst joint, near unto Jupiter\u2019s mouth, they manifest a jovial\ndisposition, that is, they point to the man whom Jupiter favored well in\nhis nativity. That who hath a star in the same place, may certainly be\npronounced unchaste and lascivious.\n\n\nXXI.--MEDIUS, OR THE MIDDLE FINGER.\n\nThis finger presenting little gridirons in the joints thereof, plainly\ndeclares an unhappy and melancholy wit, but if equal lines, it manifests\nfortune by metals, &c. A star there presages a violent death by drowning,\n&c. If a gross line be extended from the root thereof, upwards, through\nthe whole finger into the end of the last joint, it argues folly and\nmadness.\n\n\nXXII.--ANNULARIS, OR THE RING FINGER.\n\nA line arising from mons solis, and ascending by a right track through the\njoints thereof, it shows a noble frame. Equal lines in the first joint\ndemonstrate honors and riches; overthwart lines, the enmity of great men.\nHowbeit, if these lines be intersected, it is better, because they argue\nimpediments.\n\n\nXXIII.--AURICULARIS, OR LITTLE FINGER.\n\nFrom the joint thereof, as from the mouth itself, are judgments and\ndecrees passed concerning merchandise, favors, and a star in its first\njoint near the tuberculum, argues ingenuity and eloquence.\n\nOther obtuse signs the contrary, but when there appear unfortunate signs\nin the first and second joints, they mark out a thief and a very deceitful\nperson. If adverse lines in the last joint, perpetual inconstancy.\n\nSome there are who predict the number of wives from the little lines in\nthe mons Mercurii at the outermost part of the hand, and have often\nobserved them come at the truth.\n\nIf the end of this finger reach not so far as to touch the last joint of\nthe ring finger, it signifies a wife most imperious in all things, the\ntruth thereof is often proved.\n\n\nCONSIDERATIONS ON THE MOUNTS AND FINGERS.\n\nAs the mounts being adorned with good figures and characters indicate a\ngood and happy issue, so likewise being vitiated with confused lines, they\nthreaten the contrary, and this as well on the fingers as mounts, except\nthey are restrained by the confederacy of other lines which are of\nthemselves good and fortunate.\n\nThere are likewise the twelve signs of the Zodiac upon the fingers. The\nsignification of the lines proceeding from the mounts of the different\nplanets upon the fingers, show their effect chiefly when the sun, or their\nprincipal significator, as lord of the ascendant, &c., is in these signs,\nruling the parts where they terminate, as a line passing from the mount of\nSaturn to the first point of the middle finger would give improvement when\nthe sun was in Pisces; if to the second, in Aquarius. Observe also that\nthe first joint near the mount of the finger must be attributed to the\nfirst part of the age, the second to the prime of life, and the last unto\nold age.\n\nLastly. The structure of the hand itself is really admirable in respect to\nthe proportion it bears to the face, and certain parts thereof, which is\nthis:\n\nThe whole hand is of equal length with the face.\n\nThe greater joint of the forefinger (which adjoins upon the tuberculum of\nJupiter) equals the height of the forehead.\n\nThe other two (to the extremity of the nail) are just the length of the\nnose, viz.: from the intercelia, or place between the eyebrows, to the tip\nof the nostrils.\n\nThe first and greater joint of the middle finger is just as long as it is\nbetween the bottom of the chin and the top of the under lip.\n\nBut the third joint of the same finger is of equal length with the\ndistance that is between the mouth and the lower part of the nostrils.\n\nThe largest joint of the thumb gives the width of the mouth.\n\nThe distance between the bottom of the chin and the top of the lower lip,\nthe same.\n\nThe lesser joint of the thumb is equal to the distance between the top of\nthe lower lip and the lower part of the nostrils. The nails obtain just\nthe half of their respective uppermost joints, which they call omychios.\n\n\nOF THE NAILS OF THE FINGERS.\n\nBroad nails show the person to be bashful and fearful, but of a gentle\nnature. When there is a certain white mark at the extremity of them, it\nshows that the person has more honesty than subtilty, and that his worldly\nsubstance will be impaired through negligence. White nails and long,\ndenote much sickness and infirmity, especially fevers, and are an\nindication of strength, and deceit in women. If upon the white anything\nappears at the extremity that is pale, it denotes short life by sudden\ndeath, and the person to be given to melancholy. When there appear a\nsudden mixed redness of divers colors at the beginning of the nail, it\nshows the person to be choleric, and very quarrelsome. When the extremity\nis black, it is a sign of husbandry. Narrow nails denote the person to be\ninclined to mischief and to do injury to his neighbor. Long nails show the\nperson to be good natured, but mistrustful, and loves reconciliation\nrather than differences. Oblique nails signify deceit and want of courage.\nLittle and round nails denote obstinate anger and hatred; if they be\ncrooked at the extremity, they show pride and fierceness. Round nails show\na choleric person, yet soon reconciled and a lover of secret sciences.\nFleshy nails denote the person to be mild in temper, idle and lazy. Pale\nand black nails show the person to be very deceitful to his neighbor, and\nsubject to many diseases. Red and marked nails signify a choleric and\nmartial nature, given to cruelty: and as many little marks as there are,\nthey speak of so many evil desires.\n\n\n\n\nCELESTIAL PALMISTRY.\n\n\nThe Moon exercises an influence over the children of men, which varies\nwith her monthly age, in like manner as that of the sun is varied\naccording to his progress through the signs of the zodiac. Her term is\ncompleted in thirty days and recurs twelve times annually. The probable\nfate of each individual through life is to be gathered from the aspect of\nthe day on which he was born; and the issue of any particular event or\nundertaking from the day of its occurrence or transaction or commencement;\ncounting in both cases from the _new moon_, as is shown in the following\ncalendar. She has power over dreams and visions; and exercises it more\nparticularly on certain days.\n\nA child born within twenty-four hours after the new moon will be fortunate\nand live to a good old age. Whatever is dreamed on that day will be\npleasing to the dreamer.\n\nThe second day is very lucky for discovering things lost, or hidden\ntreasure; the child born on this day will thrive.\n\nThe child born on the third day will be fortunate through persons in\npower, and whatever is dreamed will prove true.\n\nThe fourth day is evil; persons falling sick on this day rarely recover.\n\nThe fifth day is favorable to begin a good work and dreams will be\ntolerably successful; the child born on this day will be vain and\ndeceitful.\n\nThe child born on the sixth day will not live long, and his dreams will\nnot immediately come to pass.\n\nOn the seventh day do not tell your dreams, for much depends on concealing\nthem; if sickness befalls you on this day you will soon recover; the child\nborn on this day will live long, but have many troubles.\n\nOn the eighth day whatever is dreamed will come to pass; whatever business\na person undertakes on this day will prosper.\n\nThe ninth day differs very little from the former; the child born on this\nday will arrive at great riches and honor.\n\nThe tenth day is likely to be fatal to those who fall sick; but the child\nborn on this day will live long and be a great traveler.\n\nThe child that is born on the eleventh day will be much devoted to\nreligion, and of an engaging form and manners.\n\nOn the twelfth day dreams are rather fortunate and the child born then\nshall live long.\n\nOn the thirteenth day the dreams will prove true in a very short time.\n\nIf you ask a favor of any one on the fourteenth day, it will be granted.\n\nThe sickness that befalls a person on the fifteenth day is likely to prove\nmortal.\n\nThe child that is born on the sixteenth day will be of very ungraceful\nmanners and unfortunate; it is nevertheless a good day for buying and\nselling merchandise.\n\nThe child born on the seventeenth day will be very foolish; it is a very\nunfortunate day to transact any kind of business or contract marriage.\n\nThe child born on the eighteenth day will be valiant, but will suffer\nconsiderable hardships; if a female, she will be chaste and industrious\nand live respected to a great age.\n\nThe nineteenth day is dangerous; the child born during it will be very\nill-disposed and malicious.\n\nOn the twentieth day the dreams are true, but the child born during it\nwill be dishonest.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-first day will grow up healthy and strong,\nbut selfishly inclined and of low habits.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-second day will be fortunate; he or she will\nbe of cheerful countenance, religious, and much beloved.\n\nThe child that is born on the twenty-third day will be of an ungovernable\ntemper, will forsake his friends and wander about in a foreign country,\nunhappy through life.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-fourth day will achieve many heroic actions\nand be much admired for his extraordinary abilities.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-fifth day will be very wicked; he will meet\nwith many dangers and will probably come to an ill end.\n\nOn the twenty-sixth day the dreams are certain; the child then born will\nbe rich and greatly esteemed.\n\nThe twenty-seventh day is very favorable for dreams, and the child then\nborn will be of a sweet and amiable disposition.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-eighth day will be the delight of his\nparents, but will not live to a great age.\n\nThe child born on the twenty-ninth day will experience many hardships,\nthough in the end they may turn out happily. It is good to marry on this\nday, and business begun on this day will be prosperous.\n\nAnd, finally, the child that is born on the thirtieth day will be\nfortunate and happy and well skilled in arts and sciences.\n\n\nCHILDREN BORN ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.\n\n_Sunday._--The child shall be of long life and obtain riches.\n\n_Monday._--Weak and of an effeminate temper, which seldom brings a man to\nhonor.\n\n_Tuesday._--Worse; though he may, with extraordinary vigilance, conquer\nthe inordinate desires to which he will be subject; still he will be in\ndanger of dying by violence, if he has not great procreation.\n\n_Wednesday._--He shall be given to the study of learning and shall profit\nthereby.\n\n_Thursday._--He shall arrive at great honor and dignity.\n\n_Friday._--He shall be of a strong constitution, yet perhaps remarkably\nlecherous.\n\n_Saturday._--Is another bad day; but, notwithstanding, the child may come\nto good, though it be seldom; but most children born on this day are of a\nheavy, dull and very dogged disposition.\n\n\nSICKNESS--LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS.\n\nWhoever, in the first day of any month, fall sick, or is attacked with any\ninfirmity, the third day ensuing is to be feared, which, if he pass, he\nshall escape.\n\nThose falling ill on the second day of any month, though they be long\nconfined, yet shall recover.\n\nAny illness commencing on the third day will certainly terminate\nfavorably.\n\nThose falling sick on the fourth day will probably linger until the\ntwenty-eighth, which, if they pass, may possibly recover.\n\nThose taken ill on the fifth day may become very low, but will recover.\n\nPersons falling sick on the sixth day may recover, if they pass the fifth\nday of the ensuing month, but they will stand a poor chance of recovery.\n\nThe seventh is a lucky day, and one falling sick on this day may recover,\neven though having to endure great suffering.\n\nThe eighth day is an unfortunate one, and those falling ill on it will not\nbe likely to survive.\n\nIllness commencing on the ninth day will not usually prove fatal, though\nsometimes so.\n\nOn the tenth day, the contrary.\n\nThe eleventh day is remarkably fortunate for those falling sick; they will\nrecover speedily.\n\nIt is a bad omen to be taken sick on the twelfth of any month; for unless\nyou recover within two or three days, you will most certainly die within\nthe year.\n\nThose falling sick on the thirteenth day, if they pass five days, they\nwill quite likely recover.\n\nThe fourteenth is a lucky day, and those taken sick on it will recover in\nforty-eight hours.\n\nOn the contrary, those falling ill on the fifteenth day may experience\nlong and lingering illness, which will probably prove fatal.\n\nThose taken on the sixteenth day, may escape, after some weeks of illness.\n\nPersons falling ill on the seventeenth day are almost sure to die within\nthree weeks.\n\nThe eighteenth is a lucky day and those falling sick on that day will\nundoubtedly recover.\n\nThe nineteenth, the same--though the sickness may last much longer.\n\nThe twentieth is an uncertain day, and sickness commencing on this day\nfrequently terminates fatally, if it continue more than five days.\n\nThe twenty-first day perils one\u2019s life for ten days--that time passed, you\nwill recover.\n\nThose falling sick on the twenty-second, will die within forty-eight\nhours, or after that time will certainly recover.\n\nThose taken sick on the twenty-third will stand a chance of lingering\nillness, which will probably terminate favorably.\n\nThe twenty-fourth is another unlucky day, and those falling ill on that\nday, though they be partially restored, will probably die within three\nmonths.\n\nOn the contrary, the twenty-fifth is a very favorable day, and those\nfalling sick will get well speedily.\n\nThe twenty-sixth portends a protracted illness, which will terminate\nfavorably.\n\nThe twenty-seventh threatens death, though the chances of recovery are\nfair.\n\nThose falling ill on the twenty-eighth, menace death.\n\nPersons who are taken sick on the twenty-ninth day will have a very\nprotracted illness and recover slowly.\n\nThe thirtieth and thirty-first are uncertain days, and persons falling\nsick on either of these days, it cannot be known whether they will recover\nor not.\n\n\n\n\nASTROLOGICAL MISCELLANY.\n\n\nDAYS OF THE MONTH.\n\n\nI.--FORTUNATE.\n\nIn January, six days: the 1st, 2d, 15th, 26th, 27th and 28th.\n\nIn February, four days: the 11th, 21st, 25th and 26th.\n\nIn March, two days: the 10th and 24th.\n\nIn April, five days: the 6th, 15th, 16th, 20th and 28th.\n\nIn May, three days: the 3d, 18th and 31st.\n\nIn June, five days: the 10th, 11th, 15th, 22d and 25th.\n\nIn July, three days: the 9th, 15th and 28th.\n\nIn August, six days: the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 19th and 25th.\n\nIn September, five days: the 4th, 8th, 17th, 18th and 23d.\n\nIn October, five days: the 3d, 7th, 16th, 21st and 22d.\n\nIn November, three days: the 5th, 14th and 20th.\n\nIn December, six days: the 15th, 19th, 20th, 22d, 23d and 25th.\n\n\nII.--UNFORTUNATE.\n\nIn January, seven days: the 3d, 4th, 6th, 13th, 14th, 20th and 21st.\n\nIn February, seven days: the 3d, 7th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 17th and 23d.\n\nIn March, eight days: the 1st, 2d, 5th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 28th and 29th.\n\nIn April, two days: the 24th and 25th.\n\nIn May, five days: the 17th, 20th, 27th, 29th and 30th.\n\nIn June, eight days: the 1st, 5th, 6th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th and 24th.\n\nIn July, four days: the 3d, 10th, 17th and 18th.\n\nIn August, two days: the 15th and 20th.\n\nIn September, two days: the 9th and 16th.\n\nIn October, six days: the 4th, 9th, 11th, 17th, 27th and 31st.\n\nIn November, four days: the 3d, 9th, 10th and 21st.\n\nIn December, two days: the 14th and 21st.\n\n\nIMPORTANT ADVICE.\n\nTO FEMALES.--It has often been observed, and experience has shown the\nobservation to be a true one, that some event of importance is sure to\nhappen to a woman in her thirty-first year, whether it prove for her good\nor it be some great evil or temptation; therefore we advise her to be\ncircumspect in all her actions. If she is a maiden or widow, it is\nprobable she will marry this year. If a wife, that she will lose her\nchildren or husband. She will either receive riches or travel into a\nforeign land; at all events, some circumstance or other will take place\nduring this remarkable year of her life, that will have great effect on\nher future fortunes and existence.\n\nTO MALES.--The like is applicable to men in their forty-second year, of\nwhich there are so many instances that there is not a doubt of its truth.\nObserve always to take a lease for an odd number of years; an even number\nis not prosperous. The three first days of the moon are the best for\nsigning papers; and the first five days, as well as the twenty-fourth, for\nany fresh undertaking.\n\n\n\n\nMOLES. THEIR SITUATION AND THE INDICATION THEY GIVE OF A PERSON\u2019S\nDISPOSITION AND FUTURE LOT IN LIFE.\n\n\nThough moles are, in their substance, nothing else than excrescences, or\nebullitions which proceed from the state of the blood whilst the f\u0153tus is\nconfined in the womb, yet they are not given in vain, as they are\ngenerally characteristic of the disposition and temper of those that bear\nthem; and it is also proved by daily experience that from the shape,\nsituation and other circumstances, they bear a strong analogy to the\nevents which are to happen to a person in future life. Herein are given\nthe common prognostications by moles found in all the various parts of the\nbody, according to the doctrine of the ancients. The larger the mole, the\ngreater the prosperity or adversity of the person; the smaller the mole,\nthe less will be his good or evil fate. If the mole is round, it indicates\ngood; if angular, it gives a mixture of good and evil; if oblong, a\nmoderate share of fortunate events; the deeper the color, the more favor\nor disgrace; the lighter, the less of either. If it is very hairy, much\nmisfortune may be expected; but if few long hairs grow upon it, it denotes\nthat your undertakings will be prosperous.\n\nA mole that stands on the right side of the forehead, or right temple,\nsignifies that the person will arrive at sudden wealth and honor,\naccording to their birth and situation in life; which must always be\nattended to with due consideration.\n\nA mole on the right eyebrow announces speedy marriage; and that the person\nto whom you will be married will possess many amiable qualities and a good\nfortune.\n\nA mole on the left of either of these three places announces unexpected\ndisappointment in your most sanguine wishes.\n\nA mole on the outside corner of either eye denotes the person to be of a\nsober, steady and sedate disposition; but will be liable to a violent\ndeath.\n\nA mole on either cheek signifies that the person shall never rise above\nmediocrity in point of fortune; though at the same time he will never fall\ninto real poverty.\n\nA mole on the nose shows that the person will have good success in most of\nhis or her undertakings.\n\nA mole on the lip, either upper or lower, proves the person to be fond of\ndelicate things and much given to the pleasures of love, in which he or\nshe will most commonly be successful.\n\nA mole on the chin foreshows the person will be attended with prosperity\nand be highly esteemed.\n\nA mole on the side of the neck shows that the person will narrowly escape\nsuffocation; but will afterward rise to great consideration by an\nunexpected legacy or inheritance.\n\nA mole on the throat denotes that the person shall become rich by\nmarriage.\n\nA mole on the right breast declares the person to be exposed to a sudden\nreverse from comfort to distress, by unavoidable accidents. Most of his\nchildren will be girls.\n\nA mole on the left breast signifies success in undertakings and an amorous\ndisposition.\n\nA mole on the bosom portends mediocrity of health and fortune.\n\nA mole under the left breast, over the heart, foreshadows that the man\nwill be of a warm disposition, unsettled in mind, fond of rambling and\nlight in his conduct. In a lady, it shows sincerity in love, quick\nconception and easy travail in childbirth.\n\nA mole on the right side, over any part of the ribs, denotes the person to\nbe pusillanimous, and slow in understanding anything that may be attended\nwith difficulty.\n\nA mole on the belly, denotes the person to be addicted to sloth and\ngluttony, selfish in almost all articles and seldom inclined to be nice or\ncareful in point of dress.\n\nA mole on either hip shows that the person will have many children and\nsuch of them as survive will be healthful, lusty and patient in all\nhardships.\n\nA mole on the right thigh shows that the person will become rich and also\nfortunate in marriage.\n\nA mole on the left thigh denotes that the person suffers much by poverty\nand want of friends, as also by the enmity and injustice of others.\n\nA mole on the right knee signifies that the person will be fortunate in\nthe choice of a partner for life and meet with few disappointments in the\nworld.\n\nA mole on the left knee portends that the person will be rash,\ninconsiderate and hasty, but modest when in cold blood, honest and\ninclined to good behavior.\n\nA mole on either leg shows that the person is indolent, thoughtless and\nindifferent as to whatever may happen.\n\nA mole on either ankle denotes a man to be inclined to effeminacy and\nelegance of dress--a lady, to be courageous, active and industrious, with\nsome spice of the termagant.\n\nA mole on either foot forebodes sudden illness or unexpected misfortune.\n\nA mole on the right shoulder signifies prudence, discretion, secrecy and\nwisdom.\n\nA mole on the left shoulder declares a testy, contentious and ungovernable\nspirit.\n\nA mole on the right arm denotes vigor and undaunted courage. On the left\narm, resolution and victory in battle.\n\nA mole near either elbow declares restlessness, a roving and unsteady\ntemper, also a discontentedness with those whom they are obliged\nconstantly to live with.\n\nA mole between the elbow and the wrist promises the person prosperity, but\nnot until he has undergone and suffered many hardships.\n\nA mole on the wrist, or between it and the ends of the fingers, denotes\nindustry, parsimony, fidelity and conjugal affection.\n\nA mole against the heart denotes wickedness. If a woman have a mole on her\nright knee, she will be honest and virtuous; if on the left, she will have\nmany children.\n\nIf a woman have a mole on her lower jaw, it signifies she will pass her\nlife in sorrow and pain of body.\n\nA mole in the midst of the forehead, near the hair, denotes a\ndiscourteous, cruel mind and of unpleasant discourse; if it is of a honey\ncolor, the person will be beloved; if red, sullen and furious; if black,\ninexpert and wavering; if raised more like a wart, very fortunate. But if\na woman, it shows her to be a slut; and if in her forehead black,\ntreacherous, consents to evil and murder.\n\nA mole on the left side of the forehead, near the hair, predicts misery\nand abundance of tribulations to a man, by means of his own misconduct; if\nhoney-colored or red, his sorrows are lessened; but if black, unfortunate\nin every undertaking.\n\nA mole on the left side of the forehead, about the midway, threatens a man\nwith persecutions from his superiors; if of honey color, he prodigally\nwastes his estate; if red, he will become poor; if black, let him beware\nof the wrath or malice of great men; if a woman, it threatens sorrow by\nthe perfidy of some men; if black, she will partake of the extremity of\nmisery.\n\nA mole on the left side of the forehead, a little above the temple, if it\nappear red, denotes a man has excellent wit and understanding; if black,\nhe is in danger of being branded for his falsehoods; if he has a wart, his\nfate is mitigated. To a woman it signifies justification of innocence,\nthough not deserved; if black, malignity, and it represents every evil.\n\nA mole appearing on the right temple, above the eye, near the head,\ndenotes a long life and good fortune; if pale, or red, he is studious; to\na woman, it signifies good and happy fortune in marriage, as she will be\nof careful conduct.\n\nA mole on the right temple, inclining towards the neck, promiseth\ningenuity and riches, as also long life; if honey or red colored, good\nfortune; if black, trouble; but if as a wart, he shall obtain all good\nthings.\n\nA mole on the left side, towards the upper part of the eye, signifies\nsickness; if black, a short life; if as a wart, it denotes a good end. To\na woman, moderate health, loss of favor of friends, perverse children and\nenemies; if black, many miseries.\n\nA mole on the ear signifies riches and respect.\n\nIf either in a man or woman\u2019s hand a mole appears, it denotes great\nprosperity and enjoyment of children.\n\nA mole on the left side of the stomach shows a luxurious person.\n\nA mole on the left side of the belly denotes afflictions.\n\nA mole under the hollow of the right eye signifies the party to be\nfurious.\n\n\n\n\nCHARTOLOGY, OR DIVINATION BY CARDS.\n\n\nTake a pack of cards, shuffle and cut them three different times, lay them\non a table, nine in a row; if a man, he may choose one of the kings to\nrepresent himself; if a woman, she must select one of the queens; then the\nqueen of the chosen king or the king of the chosen queen, will stand for a\nhusband or wife, mistress or lover, of the party whose fortune is to be\ntold; and the knave of the suit for the most intimate person of their\nfamily. Remember that everything is within your circle as far as you can\ncount nine, any way from the card that represents the person, his wife, or\nher husband, and their intimate friend; also, that the ninth card, every\nway, is of the greatest consequence.\n\n\nCLUBS.\n\n_Ace of Clubs_ promises great wealth, much prosperity in life and\ntranquillity of mind.\n\n_King of Clubs_ announces a man who is humane, upright, affectionate and\nfaithful in all his undertakings; he will be happy himself and make his\nconnections so if he can.\n\n_Queen of Clubs_ shows a tender, mild and rather amorous disposition, one\nwho will probably yield herself to a kind lover before the matrimonial\nknot is tied; but they will be happy, love each other and be married.\n\n_Knave of Clubs_ shows an open, sincere friend, who will exert himself\nwarmly in your interest and welfare.\n\n_Ten of Clubs_ denotes that riches will come speedily from an unexpected\nquarter; it also threatens the loss of some dear friend.\n\n_Nine of Clubs_ shows that you will displease some of your friends by a\ntoo steady adherence to your own opinion.\n\n_Eight of Clubs_ shows the person to be covetous and extremely fond of\nmoney; that he will obtain it, but that it will rather prove a torment\nthan a comfort to him, as he will not make a proper use of it.\n\n_Seven of Clubs_ promises the most brilliant fortune and the most\nexquisite bliss that this world can afford; but beware of the opposite\nsex, as from these alone can you experience misfortune.\n\n_Six of Clubs_ shows you will enter into a very lucrative partnership and\nthat your children will behave well.\n\n_Five of Clubs_ declares that you will be shortly married to a person who\nwill improve your circumstances.\n\n_Four of Clubs_ shows inconstancy for the sake of money and change of\nobject.\n\n_Trey of Clubs_ shows that you will be three times married and each time\nto a wealthy person.\n\n_Deuce of Clubs_ shows that there will be some unfortunate opposition to\nyour favorite inclination which will disturb you.\n\n\nDIAMONDS.\n\n_Ace of Diamonds_ signifies a letter.\n\n_King of Diamonds_ shows a man of fiery temper, continued anger, seeking\nrevenge and obstinate in his resolutions.\n\n_Queen of Diamonds_ signifies that the woman will be fond of company, be a\ncoquette and not over virtuous.\n\n_Knave of Diamonds_, however nearly related, will look more after his own\ninterest than yours; he will be tenacious of his own opinion and will fly\noff if contradicted.\n\n_Ten of Diamonds_ promises a country husband or wife, with great wealth\nand many children; the card next to it tells the number of children; it\nalso signifies a purse of gold.\n\n_Nine of Diamonds_ declares that the person will be of a roving\ndisposition, never contented with his lot, and forever meeting with\nvexations and disappointments.\n\n_Eight of Diamonds_ shows that the person, in youth, will be an enemy to\nmarriage and thus run the risk of dying unmarried; but that if he does\nmarry, it will be late in life and then it will be with a person whose\ndisposition is so ill assorted to his own that it will be the cause of\nmisfortune.\n\n_Seven of Diamonds_ shows you will be tormented by the infidelity of your\nconjugal partner and waste of goods.\n\n_Six of Diamonds_ shows an early marriage and premature widowhood, but a\nsecond marriage will probably be worse.\n\n_Five of Diamonds_ shows that you will have good children, who will keep\nyou from grief.\n\n_Four of Diamonds_ shows the incontinence of the person you will be\nmarried to, and great vexation to yourself through the whole course of\nyour life.\n\n_Trey of Diamonds_ shows that you will be engaged in quarrels, lawsuits\nand domestic disagreements; your partner for life will be a vixen and of\nabusive temper, fail in the performance of the nuptial duties and make you\nunhappy.\n\n_Deuce of Diamonds_ shows that your heart will be engaged in love at an\nearly period; that your parents will not approve of your choice, and that\nif you marry without their consent they will hardly forgive you.\n\n\nHEARTS.\n\n_Ace of Hearts_ signifies feasting and pleasure; if the ace is attended by\nspades it foretells quarrelling; if by hearts, it shows affection and\nfriendship; if by diamonds, you will hear of some absent friend; if by\nclubs, merry-making.\n\n_King of Hearts_ shows a man of good natured dissipation, but hot and\nhasty, rash in his undertakings, and very amorous.\n\n_Queen of Hearts_ denotes a woman of fair complexion, faithful and\naffectionate.\n\n_Knave of Hearts_ is a person of no particular sex, but always the dearest\nfriend or nearest relation of the consulting party. You must pay great\nattention to the cards that stand next to the knave, as from them alone\nyou can judge whether the person it represents will favor your\ninclinations or not.\n\n_Ten of Hearts_ shows good nature and many children; it is a corrective of\nbad tidings of the cards that stand next to it; its neighboring cards are\nof good report and it ascertains and confirms their value.\n\n_Nine of Hearts_ promises wealth, grandeur and high esteem; if cards that\nare unfavorable stand near it, you must look for disappointments, and a\nreverse if favorable cards follow; these last at a small distance, except\nto retrieve your losses whether of peace or of goods.\n\n_Eight of Hearts_ is a sign of drinking and feasting.\n\n_Seven of Hearts_ shows the person to be fickle and of an unfaithful\ndisposition; addicted to vice, incontinent, and subject to the mean art of\nrecrimination to excuse themselves although without foundation.\n\n_Six of Hearts_ shows a generous, open and credulous disposition; easily\nimposed upon, ever the dupe of flatterers, but the good natured friend of\nthe distressed. If this card comes before your king or queen, you will be\nthe dupe; if after, you will have the better.\n\n_Five of Hearts_ shows a wavering and unsteady disposition, never true to\none object, but free from every violent attachment.\n\n_Four of Hearts_ shows the person will not be married until very late in\nlife, which will proceed from too great a delicacy in making a choice.\n\n_Trey of Hearts_ shows that your own imprudence will greatly contribute to\nyour experiencing much ill-will from others.\n\n_Deuce of Hearts_ shows that extraordinary success and good fortune will\nattend the person; though, if unfavorable cards attend, this will be a\nlong time delayed.\n\n\nSPADES.\n\n_Ace of Spades_ totally relates to affairs of love, without specifying\nwhether lawful or unlawful; it also denotes death when the card is upside\ndown.\n\n_King of Spades_ shows a man ambitious and successful at court, or with\nsome great man, who will have it in his power to advance him; but let him\nbeware of a reverse.\n\n_Queen of Spades_ shows that a person will be corrupted by the rich of\nboth sexes; and, if she is handsome, great attempts will be made on her\nvirtue.\n\n_Knave of Spades_ shows a person who, although they have your welfare at\nheart, will be too indolent to pursue it with zeal, unless you frequently\nraise their attention.\n\n_Ten of Spades_ is a card of bad import; it will in a great measure\ncounteract the good effects of the cards near you.\n\n_Nine of Spades_ is the worst card in the pack; it portends dangerous\nsickness, a total loss of fortune, cruel calamities and endless dissension\nin your family.\n\n_Eight of Spades_ shows you will experience strong opposition from your\nfriends, or those you imagine to be such. If this card comes close to you,\nleave your plan and adopt another.\n\n_Seven of Spades_ shows the loss of a most valuable friend, whose death\nwill plunge you in very great distress.\n\n_Six of Spades_ announces a mediocrity of fortune, and very great\nuncertainty in your undertakings.\n\n_Five of Spades_ will give very little interpretation of your success; it\npromises good luck in the choice of your companion for life, that you will\nmeet with one fond of you, and immoderately attached to the joys of Hymen;\nit shows your temper rather sullen.\n\n_Four of Spades_ shows much sickness, and that your friends will injure\nyour fortune.\n\n_Trey of Spades_ shows that you will be fortunate in marriage, but that\nyour partner will be inconstant, and that you will be made very unhappy\nthereby.\n\n_Deuce of Spades_ always signifies a coffin, but who it is for must depend\nentirely on the other cards near it.\n\n\n\n\nPROGNOSTICATIONS BY DICE.\n\n\nThis is a certain and innocent way of finding out common occurrences about\nto take place. Take three dice, shake them well in the box with your left\nhand, and then cast them out on a board or table, on which you have\npreviously drawn a circle with chalk.\n\n    _Three._--A pleasing surprise.\n\n    _Four._--A disagreeable one.\n\n    _Five._--A stranger who will prove a friend.\n\n    _Six._--Loss of property.\n\n    _Seven._--Undeserved scandal.\n\n    _Eight._--Merited reproach.\n\n    _Nine._--A wedding.\n\n    _Ten._--A christening.\n\n    _Eleven._--A death that concerns you.\n\n    _Twelve._--A letter speedily.\n\n    _Thirteen._--Tears and sighs.\n\n    _Fourteen._--Beware that you are not drawn into some trouble or plot\n    by a secret enemy.\n\n    _Fifteen._--Immediate prosperity and happiness.\n\n    _Sixteen._--A pleasant journey.\n\n    _Seventeen._--You will either be on the water or have dealings with\n    those belonging to it, to your advantage.\n\n    _Eighteen._--A great profit, rise in life, or some most desirable\n    good will happen almost immediately; for the answers to the dice are\n    always fulfilled within nine days. To show the same number twice at\n    one trial, portends news from abroad, be the number what it may. If\n    the dice roll over the circle, the number thrown goes for nothing,\n    but the occurrence shows sharp words; and if they fall to the floor,\n    it is blows. In throwing out the dice, if one remains on top of the\n    other, it is a present of which I would have them take care.\n\n\n\n\nAUGURIES BY DOMINOES.\n\n\nLay them with their faces on the table and shuffle them; then draw one,\nand see the number.\n\n    _Double-six._--Receiving a handsome sum of money.\n\n    _Six-five._--Going to a public amusement.\n\n    _Six-four._--Lawsuits.\n\n    _Six-three._--Ride in a coach.\n\n    _Six-two._--Present of clothing.\n\n    _Six-one._--You will perform a friendly action.\n\n    _Six-blank._--Guard against scandal, or you will suffer by your\n    inattention.\n\n    _Double-five._--A new abode to your advantage.\n\n    _Five-four._--A fortunate speculation.\n\n    _Five-three._--A visit from a superior.\n\n    _Five-two._--A water party.\n\n    _Five-one._--A love intrigue.\n\n    _Five-blank._--A funeral, but not of a relation.\n\n    _Double-four._--Drinking liquor at a distance.\n\n    _Four-three._--A false alarm at your house.\n\n    _Four-two._--Beware of thieves or swindlers. Ladies take note, this\n    means more than it says.\n\n    _Four-one._--Trouble from creditors.\n\n    _Four-blank._--Letter from an angry friend.\n\n    _Double-three._--Sudden wedding, at which you will be vexed, and by\n    which you will lose a friend.\n\n    _Three-two._--Buy no lottery tickets, nor enter into any game of\n    chance, or you will lose.\n\n    _Three-one._--A great discovery at hand.\n\n    _Three-blank._--An illegitimate child.\n\n    _Double-two._--Vexations from a jealous partner.\n\n    _Two-one._--You will mortgage or pledge some property soon.\n\n    _Double-one._--You will find something to your advantage.\n\n    _Double-blank._--The worst presage in all the set; you will meet\n    trouble from a quarter for which you are quite unprepared.\n\n\n\n\nTALISMEN, CHARMS, SPELLS AND INCANTATIONS.\n\n\nTALISMAN FOR WAR AND BATTLE.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThis Talisman, which is to be made of highly tempered steel, bears on it\nthe powerful words, and also the awful sign, which were conveyed to the\nEmperor Constantine from heaven, in daylight, and in the presence of his\nwhole army, and whereby he was victorious in battle. It is to be tied\naround the sword arm.\n\nAn ancient manuscript says of it, \u201cHe that beareth this sign about him,\nshall be helpen in every need and necessity.\u201d\n\n\nA TALISMAN FOR DESTROYING INSECTS AND REPTILES.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThis Talisman is to be made of iron, when the sun and moon enter the sign\nScorpio. It has been proved to be powerful in effect; so much so, that no\nkind of venomous reptile or troublesome insect can come within some yards\nof the house or place in which it is. The manuscript from which the\naccount of this talisman is taken cost a very large sum, and a medical\ngentleman, to whom it belonged, affirms that he has himself proved its\nefficacy; for being at one time much annoyed by beetles, he made a\ntalisman, according to instructions here given, and screwed it to the\nfloor, when these troublesome insects immediately disappeared; but\nafterwards, when the servant removed it, through ignorance, they returned\nin great numbers; when he again nailed it to the floor, and they again\ndisappeared.\n\n\nTALISMAN FOR LOVE.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThis Talisman is said to be wonderfully efficacious in procuring success\nin amours and love adventures. It must be made when Venus, the planet of\nlove, is the evening star. It should be made of pure silver and worn\ndirectly over the heart, on the left breast.\n\n\nTALISMAN AGAINST ENEMIES.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThis Talisman is to be cast of the purest grain tin, and during the\nincrease of the moon. The characters are to be engraved on it also during\nthe increase of the moon. It may be suspended about the neck, or worn on\nany part of the body, so that it be kept from the sight of all but the\nwearer. Its effects are to give victory over enemies, protection against\ntheir machinations, and to inspire the wearers thereof with most\nremarkable confidence.\n\n\nTALISMAN FOR HEALING DISEASE.\n\n    A B R A C A D A B R A\n     A B R A C A D A B R\n      A B R A C A D A B\n       A B R A C A D A\n        A B R A C A D\n         A B R A C A\n          A B R A C\n           A B R A\n            A B R\n             A B\n              A\n\nThe letters which compose this charm must be inscribed in a pyramidical\nform, as above, on the purest white beeswax, of the ordinary thickness,\nand of a size sufficiently large to admit of the letters being distinctly\nwritten by the individual who is sick; or, if he is too sick, by his\ndearest friend next at hand. Use for writing them a pen made of the quill\nof a raven, and ink compounded of the smoke of a concentrated taper and\nrain water. Let the party who is afflicted with the disease wear the charm\nhung around his neck, enclosed in a bag of virgin parchment, during the\ntime that the moon performs one circuit through the twelve signs of the\nzodiac, and let it be commenced on the day of the full moon. The wearer\nmust have full faith in Divine Omnipotence, and repeat the letters of the\ntalisman in some one of the different directions in which they may be\nread, daily.\n\nIf it be required to perform a cure upon one at a distance, or without the\nafflicted party\u2019s knowledge thereof, write the talisman as above and then\nyou may perform the cure by scraping out one line of the talisman every\nday with a new knife kept for the express purpose. At the scraping out of\neach line, say, \u201cSo as I destroy the letters of this talisman,\n_Abracadabra_, so, by virtue of this sacred name, may all grief and dolor\ndepart from [here mention the name of the sick person]. So I destroy this\ndisease. Amen.\u201d\n\nMany have healed divers diseases in this way; the disease wearing, little\nby little, away.\n\n\n_Charms to be used on particular Eves of Feasts and Festivals, to procure\nDreams, Tokens, and other Insights into Futurity._\n\n\nFEAST OF ST. ANNE\u2019S.\n\nThis is a hard trial, but what is not possible to any young lady who\nwishes to know her lot in marriage?--that most important change in human\nlife.\n\nPrepare yourself three days previous to the eve of this female saint, by\nliving on bread and water and sprigs of parsley, and touch no other thing\nwhatever, or your labor will be lost. The eve begins at the sixth hour. Go\nto bed as soon as convenient, and speak not a word after you once begin to\nundress; get into bed, lie on your left side with your head as low as\npossible, and repeat the following verse three times:\n\n    St. Anne, in silver clouds descend,\n    Prove thyself a female\u2019s friend;\n    Be it good or be it harm,\n    Let me have knowledge from the charm;\n    Be it husbands one, two, three,\n    Let me in rotation see;\n    And if Fate decrees me four,\n    (No good maid could wish far more),\n    Let me view them in my dream,\n    Fair and clearly to be seen;\n    But if the stars decree\n    Perpetual virginity,\n    Let me sleep on, and dreaming not,\n    I shall know my single lot.\n\n\nMAGIC ROSE.\n\nGather your rose on the 27th of June; let it be full blown, and as bright\na red as you can get; pluck it between the hours of three and four in the\nmorning, taking care to have no witness of the transaction; convey it to\nyour chamber, and hold it over a chafing dish or any convenient utensil\nfor the purpose, in which there is charcoal and sulphur of brimstone; hold\nyour rose over the smoke for about five minutes, and you will see it have\na wonderful effect on the flower. Before the rose gets the least cool,\nclap it in a sheet of writing paper, on which is written your own name and\nthat of the man you love best; also the date of the morning star that has\nthe ascendancy at that time; fold it up and seal it neatly with three\nseparate seals, then run and bury the parcel at the foot of the tree from\nwhich you gathered the flower. Here let it remain untouched till the 6th\nof July; take it up at midnight, go to bed and place it under your pillow,\nand you will have a singular and eventful dream before morning, or, at\nleast, before your usual time of rising. You may keep the rose under your\nhead three nights without spoiling the charm. When you have done with the\nrose and paper be sure to burn them.\n\n\nCUPID\u2019S NOSEGAY.\n\nOn the first night of the new moon in July, take a red rose, a white rose,\na yellow flower, a blue one, a sprig of rue and rosemary, and nine blades\nof long grass; bind all together with a lock of your own hair; kill a\nwhite pigeon, sprinkle the nosegay with the blood from the heart, and some\ncommon salt; wrap the flowers in a white handkerchief, and lay it under\nyour head, on the pillow, when you go to rest; and, before morning, you\nwill see your fate as clear as if you had your nativity cast by the best\nastrologer in the world; not only in respect to love, lovers, or marriage,\nbut in the other most important affairs of your life. Storms, in this\ndream, foretell great trouble; and graves or churchyards are fatal tokens,\nand so is climbing steep and dangerous places.\n\n\nLOVE\u2019S CORDIAL.\n\n_To be tried the Third Night of a New Moon._\n\nTake brandy, rum, gin, wine and the oil of amber, of each a teaspoonful; a\nteaspoonful of cream, and three of spring water; drink it as you get into\nbed; repeat--\n\n    This mixture of love I take for my potion,\n    That I of my destiny may have a notion;\n    Cupid befriend me, new moon be kind,\n    And show unto me the fate that\u2019s designed.\n\nYou will dream of drink, and, according to the quality or manner of it\nbeing presented, you may tell the condition to which you will rise or fall\nby marriage. Water is poverty; and, if you dream of a drunken man, it is\nominous that you will have a drunken mate. If you dream of drinking too\nmuch, you will fall, at a future period, into that sad error yourself,\nwithout great care; and what is a worse sight than an inebriated female?\nShe cannot guard her own honor, ruins her own and family\u2019s substance, and\noften clothes herself with rags. Trouble is often used as an excuse for\nthis vicious habit; but it gives more trouble than it takes away.\n\n\nTHE NINE KEYS.\n\nGet nine small keys; they must all be your own by begging or purchase\n(borrowing will not do, nor must you tell what you want them for); plait a\nthree-plaited band of your own hair, and tie them together, fastening the\nends with nine knots; fasten them with one of your garters to your left\nwrist on going to bed, and bind the other garter around your head; then\nsay--\n\n    St. Peter, take it not amiss,\n    To try your favor I\u2019ve done this;\n    You are the ruler of the keys,\n    Favor me, then, if you please:\n    Let me then your influence prove,\n    And see my dear and wedded love.\n\nThis must be done on the eve of St. Peter\u2019s, and is an old charm used by\nthe maidens of Rome in ancient times, who put great faith in it.\n\n\nTHE WITCHES\u2019 CHAIN.\n\nLet three young women join in making a long chain, about a yard will do,\nof Christmas juniper, and mistletoe berries; and at the end of every link\nput an oak acorn. Exactly before midnight let them assemble in a room by\nthemselves, where no one can disturb them; leave a window open, and take\nthe key out of the key-hole and hang it over the chimney-piece; have a\ngood fire, and place in the midst of it a long thinnish log of wood, well\nsprinkled with oil, salt and fresh mould; then wrap the chain around it,\neach maiden having an equal share in the business; then sit down, and on\nher left knee let each maiden have a prayer book, opened at the\nmatrimonial service. Just as the last acorn is burned, the future husband\nwill cross the room; each one will see her own proper spouse, but he will\nbe invisible to the rest of the wakeful virgins. Those that are not to wed\nwill see a coffin, or some misshapen form, cross the room. Go to bed\ninstantly, and you will all have remarkable dreams. This must be done\neither on a Wednesday or Friday night, but no other.\n\n\nLOVE LETTERS.\n\nOn receiving a love letter that has any particular declaration in it, lay\nit wide open; then fold it in nine folds, pin it next to your heart, and\nthus wear it till bedtime; then place it in your left hand glove, and lay\nit under your head. If you dream of gold, diamonds, or any costly gems,\nyour lover is true, and means what he says; if of white linen, you will\nlose him by death; and if of flowers, he will prove false. If you dream of\nhis saluting you, he is at present false and means not what he professes,\nbut only to draw you into a snare.\n\n\nSTRANGE BED.\n\nOn going to rest, take a glass of water, half fill it with salt, and drink\nit off as quick as you can; do not speak afterwards, but compose yourself\nto sleep, and thirst will cause you to dream; which, joined to a strange\nbed, will have a true effect.\n\n\nTHE MAGIC RING.\n\nBorrow a wedding ring, concealing the purpose for which you borrow it; but\nno widow\u2019s or pretended marriage ring will do--it spoils the charm. Wear\nit for three hours at least before you retire to rest, and then suspend it\nby a hair off your head, over your pillow; write within a circle\nresembling a ring, the sentence from the matrimonial service beginning\nwith, _With this ring I thee wed_, and around the circle write your own\nname at full length, and the figures that stand for your age; place it\nunder your pillow, and your dream will fully explain whom you are to\nmarry, and what kind of a fate you will have with them. If your dream is\ntoo confused to remember it, or you do not dream at all, it is a certain\nsign you will never be married.\n\n\nHYMENIAL CHARM.\n\nThe night before your nuptials, write your name on a piece of paper, as\nsmall as possible, with the name of your spouse elect, the date of the\nwedding day, the month and the year; enclose all in a circle of blood\ndrawn from one of your fingers, fold the paper into nine folds, place it\nin the stocking drawn from your left leg, and place it between your head\nand the pillow, and by your dreams of that night you may guess what will\nbe the fate attending your nuptial life.\n\n\nFOR A GIRL TO ASCERTAIN IF SHE WILL SOON MARRY.\n\nFind a green pea-pod with exactly nine peas in it, and hang it over the\ndoor of a room or entry-way, without letting any person know that you have\ndone so; you must then watch the door and see who goes through first; if\nit is a bachelor, or an unmarried young man, you will positively be\nmarried before the current crop of peas is disposed of; if it is a woman,\nyou will have to sigh in single blessedness another year; if a married\nman, be careful and not allow your lover too much liberty in his\nattentions.\n\n\nVALENTINE CHARM.\n\nIf you receive one of those love tokens, and cannot guess the party who\nsent it, or are in any doubt, the following method will explain it to a\ncertainty: Prick the fourth finger of your left hand, and with a crow\nquill write on the back of the valentine the day and hour in which you\nwere born, and the date of the year; also of the present one, the moon\u2019s\nage, and the name of the present morning star, all of which you will find\nin the almanac, and the sign into which the sun has entered. Try this on\nthe first Friday after you receive the valentine, but do not go to bed\ntill midnight; place the paper in your left shoe, and put it under your\npillow, lie on your left side, and repeat three times:\n\n    St. Valentine, pray condescend\n    To be this night a maiden\u2019s friend;\n    Let me now my lover see,\n    Be he of high or low degree;\n    By a sign his station show,\n    Be it weal or be it woe.\n    Let him come to my bedside,\n    And my fortune thus decide.\n\nThe young woman will be sure to dream of the identical person who sent the\nvalentine and be enabled to guess if he is to be her husband.\n\n\nACORN CHARM.\n\nThis is to be tried on the third day of the months between September and\nMarch. Let any number of young women (not exceeding nine, and minding that\nthere is an odd one in the company) assemble together, and each string\nnine acorns on a separate string, or as many acorns as there are females\nin company, but not more; wrap them around a long stick of wood, and place\nit in the fire just as the clock strikes twelve at night. Say not a word,\nbut sit around the fire till all the acorns are consumed; then rake out\nthe ashes and retire to bed almost directly, repeating:\n\n    May love and marriage be the theme,\n    To visit me in this night\u2019s dream:\n    Gentle Venus be my friend,\n    The image of my lover send.\n    Let me see his form and face,\n    And his occupation trace;\n    By a symbol or a sign,\n    Cupid, forward my design.\n\n\nCHRISTMAS SPELL.\n\nSteep mistletoe berries, to the number of nine, in a mixture of ale, wine,\nvinegar and honey; take them on going to bed, and you will dream of your\nfuture lot. A storm in this dream is very bad; it is most likely you will\nthen marry a sailor, who will suffer shipwreck at sea; but to see either\nsun, moon or stars, is an excellent presage; so are flowers; but a coffin\nis an index of a disappointment in love.\n\n\nLENT CHARM.\n\nTo be tried on any Friday in Lent, Good Friday excepted, when it is\nimproper to try anything of the kind, and the mind ought to be more\nseriously disposed. Write twelve letters of the common alphabet on\nseparate pieces of card, also twelve figures, and the same number of blank\ncards; then put them in a bag and shake them well, and let each one\npresent draw one. A blank shows a single life; a figure, intrigue; and a\nletter, a happy marriage.\n\n\nCHARMS TO KNOW WHO YOUR HUSBAND SHALL BE.\n\n_On St. Agnes\u2019 Day._--This falls on the 21st of January. You must prepare\nyourself by a twenty-four hours fast, touching nothing but pure spring\nwater, beginning at midnight on the 20th, to the same again on the 21st;\nthen go to bed, and mind you sleep by yourself, and do not mention what\nyou are trying to any one, or it will break the spell. Go to rest on your\nleft side, and repeat these lines three times:\n\n    St. Agnes, be a friend to me;\n    In the gift I ask of thee;\n    Let me this night my husband see,\n\nand you will dream of your future spouse. If you see more men than one in\nyour dream, you will wed two or three times; but if you sleep and dream\nnot, you will never marry.\n\n_By Bride Cake._--A slice of the bride cake thrice drawn through the\nwedding ring, and laid under the head of an unmarried woman, will cause\nher to dream of her future husband.\n\n_By the Garter and Stocking._--The party inquiring must live in a\ndifferent county from that in which she commonly resides, and, on going to\nbed, must knit the left garter about the right legged stocking, letting\nthe other garter and stocking alone; and as you rehearse the following\nverse, at every comma knit a knot:\n\n    This knot I knit, to know the thing I know not yet,\n    That I may see, the man that shall my husband be,\n          How he goes and what he wears,\n          And what he does all days and years.\n\nAccordingly, in a dream he will appear, with the insignia of his trade or\nprofession.\n\n\nTO KNOW WHETHER A WOMAN SHALL HAVE THE MAN SHE WISHES.\n\nGet two lemon peels and wear them all day, one in each pocket, and at\nnight rub the four posts of the bedstead with them; if she is to succeed,\nthe person will appear in her sleep, and present her with a couple of\nlemons; if, not, there is no hope.\n\n\nTO KNOW IF A WOMAN WITH CHILD WILL HAVE A GIRL OR A BOY.\n\nWrite the proper names of the father and the mother, and the month she\nconceived with child; add together the letters in these words, and divide\nthe amount by seven; if the remainder be even, it will be a girl; if\nuneven, it will be a boy.\n\n\nTO KNOW IF A NEW-BORN CHILD SHALL LIVE OR NOT.\n\nWrite the proper names of the father and the mother, and of the day the\nchild was born; count the letters in these words, and to the amount add\ntwenty-five, and then divide the whole by seven; if the remainder be even\nthe child shall die, but if uneven, the child shall live.\n\n\nTO KNOW WHAT FORTUNE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND WILL HAVE.\n\nTake a walnut, a hazel nut and a nutmeg; grate them together, and mix them\nwith butter and sugar, and make them up into small pills, of which exactly\nnine must be taken on going to bed, and, according to your dreams, so will\nbe the state of the person you will marry. If a gentleman, your dream will\nbe of riches; if a clergyman, of white linen; if a lawyer, of darkness; if\na tradesman, of odd noises and tumults; if a soldier or sailor, of thunder\nand lightning; if a servant, of rain.\n\n\nCHARM TO CURE THE HEADACHE.\n\nIf the pain be on the _right_ side of the head, make a comb out of the\n_right_ horn of a ram; and if the head be combed with it, it will take\naway the pain. But if the pain be on the _left_ side of the head, then\nmake a comb out of the _left_ horn of a ram, and if the head be combed\ntherewith, it will stop the pain.\n\n\nCHARM TO MAKE A TREE BEAR FRUIT.\n\nThe seeds of roses, with mustard seed, and the foot of a weasel, tied\ntogether in something, and hung among the boughs or branches of a tree\nwhich bears but little fruit, will remedy the defect, and render the tree\namazingly fruitful.\n\n\nCHARM TO HINDER FROM THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.\n\nThe tooth of a mad dog which has bitten any human being, tied in leather\nand hung at the shoulder, will preserve and keep the wearer from being\nbitten by any mad dog so long as he wears it. It may be worn next to the\nskin, or concealed in the clothing.\n\n\nCHARM AGAINST PERIL BY FIRE OR WATER.\n\nRepeat reverently and with sincere faith, the following words, and you\nwill be protected in the hour of danger:\n\n\u201cWhen thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through\nthe rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the\nfire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.\u201d\n\n\nCHARM AGAINST FURIOUS BEASTS.\n\nRepeat reverently, and with sincere faith, the following words, and you\nwill be protected in the hour of danger:\n\n\u201cAt destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, neither shalt thou be afraid\nof the beasts of the earth.\n\n\u201cFor thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts\nof the field shall be at peace with thee.\u201d\n\n\nCHARM AGAINST ENEMIES.\n\nRepeat reverently, and with sincere faith, the following words, and you\nwill be protected in the hour of danger:\n\n\u201cBehold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid, for the\nLord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.\n\n\u201cFor the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give\ntheir light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon\nshall not cause her light to shine.\n\n\u201cAnd behold, at eventide, trouble; and before the morning he is not; this\nis the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.\u201d\n\n\nCHARM AGAINST TROUBLE IN GENERAL.\n\nRepeat reverently, and with sincere faith, the following words, and you\nshall be protected in the hour of danger:\n\n\u201cHe shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in seven there shall no evil\ntouch thee.\n\n\u201cIn famine he shall redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of\nthe sword.\n\n\u201cAnd thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace, and thou shalt\nvisit thy habitation and shall not err.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n\nSIGNS AND AUGURIES.\n\nShould you be the subject of a deep depression of spirits, contrary to\nyour usual constitutional buoyancy and liveliness, it is a sign that you\nare about to receive some agreeable intelligence.\n\nIf the crown of your head itches more than ordinary, you may expect to be\nadvanced to a more honorable position in life.\n\nShould the hair on your head come off when combing in greater quantities\nthan usual, it is a sign that you will soon be subjected to severe\naffliction.\n\nIf your right eyebrow should immoderately itch, be assured that you are\ngoing to look on a pleasant sight--a long-absent friend, or a\nlong-estranged but now reconciled lover.\n\nShould your left eyebrow be visited with a tantalizing itching, it is a\nsign that you will soon look upon a painful sight--the corpse of a valued\nfriend, or your lover walking with a favored rival.\n\nA ringing in your right ear, is an augury that you will shortly hear some\npleasant news.\n\nA ringing in your left ear, is a sign that you will in a short time\nreceive intelligence of a very unpleasant nature.\n\nWhen your left ear tingles, some one is backbiting you.\n\nA violent itching of the nose, foretells trouble and sorrow to those that\nexperience it.\n\nAn itching of the lips is a sign that some one is speaking disrespectfully\nof you.\n\nWhen you are affected by an itching on the back of your neck, be assured\nthat either yourself or some one nearly related to you is about to suffer\na violent death.\n\nAn itching on the right shoulder, signifies that you will shortly have a\nlarge legacy bequeathed to you.\n\nWhen you feel an itching sensation on your left shoulder, be sure that you\nare about to bear a heavy burden of sorrow and trouble.\n\nIf your right elbow joint itches, you may expect shortly to hear some\nintelligence that will give you extreme pleasure.\n\nShould you be annoyed by a violent itching on your left elbow joint, you\nmay be sure that some vexatious disappointment will be experienced by you.\n\nIf you feel an itching on the palm of your right hand, you may expect soon\nto receive some money which you have been long expecting.\n\nWhen the palm of your left hand itches, you may expect to be called upon\nto pay some money for a debt which you have not personally incurred.\n\nAn itching on the spine of your back, is a sign that you will shortly be\ncalled upon to bear a heavy burden of sorrow and trouble.\n\nAn itching on your loins, is an indication that you will soon receive an\naddition to your family, if married; if single, that you are on the eve of\nmarriage.\n\nWhen you are affected with an itching of the belly, expect to be invited\nto feast upon a choice collection of savory meats.\n\nWhen either or both of your thighs itch, be assured that you are about to\nchange your sleeping apartment.\n\nIf you have an itching sensation in your right knee, depend upon it that\nyou will shortly undergo a remarkable and beneficial change in your\nprevious course of life, and become religiously inclined.\n\nIf a similar sensation prevails in your left knee, you may expect to\nundergo a change in your situation of an unfavorable nature.\n\nAn itching sensation on the shin, foretells that you will be visited by a\npainful and long-continued affliction.\n\nWhen your ankle joints itch, be sure that you are about to be united to\none whom you love, if single; if married, that your domestic comforts will\nbe largely increased.\n\nWhen the sole of your right foot itches, you may feel assured that you are\nabout to undertake a journey from which you will derive much pleasure and\nenjoyment.\n\nShould you experience a similar sensation on the sole of your left foot,\nyou may expect to be called upon to take a journey of an unpleasant and\nmelancholy nature.\n\n\nSIGNS OF SPEEDY MARRIAGE, AND GOOD SUCCESS ATTENDING IT BY SUNDRY SIGNS.\n\nFor a woman to have the first and last letters of her christian name the\nsame with the man\u2019s surname, that makes love to her, denotes a great union\nand a generous love.\n\nFor a man to have the first and last letters of his christian name the\nsame with the woman\u2019s surname, denotes the same.\n\nTo think of a party on a sudden waking, without any meditation, on a\nFriday morning, that before had a place in the affections of the man or\nwoman, is a demonstration of love or extraordinary friendship.\n\nIf a ring accidentally falls off a man\u2019s finger, that is under no\nobligation of marriage, and runs directly to the feet of a maid or widow,\nit denotes not only that he is in love with the party, but that a sudden\nmarriage will ensue.\n\nThe singing of a robin-red-breast at your window, in the time of\ncourtship, on a Wednesday, is a sign you shall have the party desired.\n\nIf walking abroad with your sweetheart you perceive a pair of pigeons\ncircle around you, it is a sign of marriage and happiness to ensue, with\nmuch content.\n\nIf a hare cross your path on a Saturday morning, it promises happy days,\nriches and pleasure.\n\n\nTHE ART OF TELLING FORTUNES BY THE GROUNDS OF A TEA OR COFFEE CUP.\n\nPour the grounds of coffee or tea into a white cup, shake them well about\nin it, so that their particles may cover the whole surface of the cup;\nthen reverse it into the saucer, that all the superfluous parts may be\ndrained off and the figures required for fortune telling be formed. The\nperson that acts the fortune teller must always bend his thoughts upon him\nor her that wishes to have their fortune told, and upon their rank and\nprofession, in order to give plausibility to their predictions. It is not\nto be expected, upon taking up the cup, that the figures will be\naccurately represented as they are in cards, but it is quite sufficient if\nthey bear some resemblance to any of the thirty-two emblems; and the more\nfertile the fancy shall be of the person that inspects the cup, the more\nhe will discover in it. In other respects, every one who takes pleasure in\nthis amusement must himself be a judge, under what circumstances he is to\nmake changes in point of time, speaking just as it suits, in the present,\nthe past, or the future; in the same manner their ingenuity ought to\ndirect them when to speak more or less pointedly and detrimentally with\nregard to sex.\n\n_The Roads_, or serpentine lines, indicate ways; if they are severed with\nclouds, and consequently in the thick, they are said to be infallible\nmarks of many past or future reverses. But if they appear in the clear and\nserene, are the surest token of some fortunate change near at hand;\nencompassed with many points or dots, they signify an accidental gain of\nmoney, likewise long life.\n\n_The Ring_ signifies marriage; if a letter is near it, it denotes to the\nperson that has his fortune told the initial of the name of the party to\nbe married. If the ring is in the clear, it portends happy and lucrative\nfriendship. Surrounded with clouds, denotes that the party is to use\nprecaution in the friendship he is about to contract, lest he should be\ninsidiously deceived; but it is most inauspicious if the ring appears at\nthe bottom of the cup, as it forebodes an entire separation from the\nbeloved object.\n\n_The Leaf of Clover_ is a lucky sign. Its different position in the cup\nalone makes the difference; on the top, it shows that the good fortune is\nnot far distant; but it is subject to delay if it is in the middle or at\nthe bottom. Should clouds surround it, it shows that much disagreeableness\nwill attend the good fortune; in the clear, it prognosticates serene and\nundisturbed happiness.\n\n_The Anchor_, the emblem of hope and commerce, implies successful business\ncarried on by water or land, if on the bottom of the cup; at the top and\nin the clear part, it shows constant love and unshaken fidelity. In the\nthick and cloudy parts it also denotes love, but tinctured with\ninconstancy.\n\n_The Serpent_, always the emblem of falsehood and enmity, is likewise the\ngeneral sign of an enemy. On the top, or in the middle of the cup, it\npromises to the consulting party the triumph which he desires over his\nenemy; but he will not obtain it so easily if the serpent be in the thick\nand cloudy part. By the letter which appears near the emblem, the enemy\nmay be easily guessed, as it makes the initial of his name.\n\n_The Letter._--By letters we communicate to our friends either pleasant or\nunpleasant news, and such is the case here; if this emblem is in the clear\npart, it denotes the speedy arrival of a considerable remittance of money,\nbut hemmed in by clouds it is quite the contrary, and forebodes some\nmelancholy or bad tidings, a loss or some other sinister accident. If it\nbe in the clear, and accompanied by a heart, lovers may expect a letter,\nwhich secures the party the possession of the beloved object; but in the\nthick, it denotes a refusal.\n\n_The Coffin_, the emblem of death, prognosticates the same thing here, or\nat least a long and tedious illness; if it be in the thick, at the top of\nthe cup, it signifies considerable estate left to the party by some rich\nrelation; in the same manner at the bottom, it shows that the deceased is\nnot so nearly related to the consulting party.\n\n_The Star_ denotes happiness if in the clear, and at the top of the cup;\nclouded, or in the thick, it signifies long life, though exposed to\nvarious troubles. If dots are about it, it foretells great fortune,\nwealth, high respectability, &c. Several stars denote so many good and\nhappy children, but surrounded with dashes shows that the person\u2019s\nchildren will cause him or her grief and vexation in old age, and should\nbe prevented by giving them a good education in time.\n\n_The Dog_, being at all times the emblem of fidelity or envy, has a\ntwo-fold meaning here. At the top, in the clear, it signifies true and\nfaithful friends, but if his image be surrounded with clouds and dashes,\nit shows that those whom you take for your friends are not to be depended\non; but if the dog be at the bottom of the cup, you have to dread the\neffects of extreme envy or jealousy.\n\n_The Lily._--If this emblem be at the top or in the middle of the cup, it\nsignifies that the consulting party either has or will have a virtuous\nspouse; if at the bottom, it denotes quite the reverse. In the clear, the\nlily further betokens along and happy life; if clouded or in the thick, it\nportends trouble and vexation, especially on the part of one\u2019s relations.\n\n_The Cross_, be it one or more, generally predicts adversities. Its\nposition varies, and so do the circumstances. If it be at the top, and in\nthe clear, it shows that the misfortunes of the party will soon be at an\nend, or that he will easily get over them; but if it appears in the\nmiddle, at the bottom, in the thick, the party must expect many severe\ntrials; if it appears with dots, either in the clear or the thick, it\npromises a speedy change in one\u2019s sorrow.\n\n_The Clouds._--If they be more light than dark, expect good results from\nwishing; but if black, you must give it up. Surrounded with dots, they\nimply success in trade and all undertakings; but, the brighter they are,\nthe greater will be the happiness.\n\n_The Sun._--An emblem of the greatest luck and happiness if in the clear;\nbut in the thick it bodes much sadness; surrounded by dots or dashes,\ndenotes that an altercation will speedily take place.\n\n_The Moon_, if it appears in the clear, denotes high honors; in the dark\nor thick part, it implies sadness, which will, however, pass without great\nprejudice. But if it be at the bottom of the cup, the consulting party\nwill be fortunate, both on land and water.\n\n_Mountains._--If it represents only one mountain, it indicates the favor\nof people of high rank; but several of them, especially in the thick, are\nsigns of powerful enemies; in the clear, they signify the contrary, or\nfriends in high life who are endeavoring to promote the welfare of the\nconsulting party.\n\n_Trees._--One tree only, be it in the clear or thick part, points out\nlasting good health; several trees denote that your wish will be\naccomplished. If they are encompassed with dashes, it is a token that your\nfortune is in its blossom, and will require some time to bring it to\nmaturity. If accompanied by dots, it is a sign that you will make your\nfortune in the country where you reside.\n\n_Child._--In the clear part, it bespeaks innocent intercourse between the\nconsultor and another person; in the thick part, excess in love affairs,\nattended with great expenses; at the bottom of the cup, it denotes the\nconsequences of amorous excesses.\n\n_The Pedestrian_ denotes, in general, to a merchant, good business,\npleasant news and the recovery of lost things. It also signifies that the\nconsulting party will soon enlist, or get some new engagement.\n\n_The Rider_ denotes good news from abroad in money matters, a good\nsituation in a foreign country, or good prospects. He that doubts his\nfortune is promised a lasting one by this emblem.\n\n_Woman_ signifies much joy in general. If in the clear, this emblem has a\nmore favorable signification than in the thick; there it shows very great\nhappiness; here, a great deal of jealousy. If dots surround the image, it\nexplains the lady\u2019s great wealth. The different positions in the cup show,\nat the top and in the middle, that you will be in love with a virgin; but\nat the bottom, it denotes she is a widow.\n\n_The Mouse._--As this animal lives by stealth, it is also an emblem here\nof theft and robbery; if it be in the clear, it shows you will get again\nwhat you lost, in a wonderful manner; but if it appears in the thick, you\nmay renounce this hope.\n\n\nHOW TO READ YOUR FORTUNE BY THE WHITE OF AN EGG.\n\nBreak a new-laid egg, and, carefully separating the yolk from the white,\ndrop the latter into a large tumbler half full of water; place this,\nuncovered, in some dry place and let it remain untouched for\nfour-and-twenty hours, by which time the white of the egg will have formed\nitself into various figures--rounds, squares, ovals, animals, trees,\ncrosses, &c.--which are to be interpreted in the same manner as those\nformed by the coffee-grounds. Of course, the more whites there are in the\nglass, the more figures there will be. This is a very pretty experiment,\nand much practised by the young Scotch maidens, who, however, believe it\nto have more efficacy when tried on either Midsummer Eve or Hallowe\u2019en\n(31st October).\n\n\nHOW TO WRITE LOVE-LETTERS SECRETLY, SO THAT THEY MAY NOT BE DISCOVERED.\n\nTake a sheet of white paper and double it in the middle, and cut holes\nthrough both the half sheets; let the holes be cut like a pane of glass,\nor other forms that you may fancy; then with a pin prick two little holes\nat each end and cut your paper in two halves; give one half to your friend\nto whom you intend to write, lay your cut paper upon a half sheet of\nwriting paper, and stick two pins in these holes so that it cannot stir;\nthen, through these holes that you cut, write your mind to your friend.\nWhen you have done, take off your paper holes again, and then write some\nother idle words, both before and after your lines, but if they were\nwritten to make some little sense, it would carry the less suspicion; then\nseal it up and send it. When your friend has received it, he must lay his\npaper on the same, putting pins into the pin-holes, and then he can read\nnothing but your mind that you write, for all the rest of the lines are\ncovered.\n\n_Another._--Write what you please of a letter on one side of a sheet of\nletter paper with common ink; then turn your paper and write on the other\nside with milk that which you would have secret, and let it dry; but this\nmust be written with a clean pen. Now, when you read it, you must hold\nthat side which is written with ink to the fire, and the milky letters\nwill then show bluish on the other side.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SILENT LANGUAGE. HOW TO CONVERSE WITH ANY PERSON WITHOUT SPEAKING A\nWORD.\n\n\nThis art is performed on your hands and fingers, by the twenty-four\nletters of the alphabet, which, having learned, you must spell the words\nyou intend your friend should know. The letters are very easily learned\nand as easily remembered. You must understand that most of the letters are\nupon the left hand and made with the fingers of the right and left hand;\nthe forefinger of your right hand you point to every letter, but sometimes\nthat and the two next fingers make several letters. The vowels are very\neasy to remember, they being the tops or ends of your five fingers on your\nleft hand, and Y is formed in the palm of your left hand, thus:\n\n    The end of the thumb is                               =A=\n    The end of the fore finger                            =E=\n    The end of the middle finger                          =I=\n    The end of the ring finger                            =O=\n    The end of the little finger                          =U=\n    The table, or palm of the hand                        =Y=\n    One finger on the left thumb                          =B=\n    Two fingers on the left thumb                         =C=\n    Three fingers on the left thumb                       =D=\n    Your two fingers laid together                        =F=\n    Thumb, your fists together                            =G=\n    Stroke the palm of both hands together                =H=\n    Your fore finger upon the left wrist                  =K=\n    One finger on the back of the left hand               =L=\n    Three fingers on the same                             =M=\n    Two fingers on the same                               =N=\n    Clench your left hand, or fist                        =O=\n    Clench your right hand                                =P=\n    Link your little fingers together                     =Q=\n    The backs of your hands together                      =R=\n    The end of your fore finger to the\n      middle joint of the other fore finger               =S=\n    Two fingers upon the little finger of the left hand   =T=\n    Two fingers across                                    =X=\n    Give two snaps with your fingers                      =Z=\n\nPractice a few times and you will soon be perfect. Several motions\nrepresent the likeness of the letter; as, one finger on the back of the\nhand is like L, two fingers like N, three like M. The fore finger to the\nmiddle joint of the other fore finger is like T; two fingers across is\nlike X; likewise B, C, D, are easily remembered; one finger on the left\nthumb is B, two fingers C, three fingers D. But you must always remember\nto give a snap with the fingers between the words, so that your friend may\ndistinguish one word from another. If you are in company, and think some\nothers understand you, that you would not have, it will be necessary to\nchange the vowels to some other part of the hand, and then none but your\nfriend that knows it can understand you. Suppose you would say to a lady\nin a large company, \u201cMadam, I am your humble servant.\u201d It is done thus:\n\n  Lay three fingers on the back of your hand                         =M=\n  Put your finger to the end of your left thumb                      =A=\n  Three fingers upon your left thumb                                 =D=\n  Your finger again to the thumb                                     =A=\n  Three fingers again to the back of your hand                       =M=\n    And give a snap with your fingers as a\n        sign the word is spelt.\n  Then point to the end of your middle finger                        =I=\n    Then snap your fingers.\n  Then point to the end of your thumb                                =A=\n  Three fingers on the back of your hand                             =M=\n    Then snap your fingers.\n  Then point to the palm of your left hand                           =Y=\n  Then point to the end of your ring finger                          =O=\n  Then point to the end of your little finger                        =U=\n  Then link your little fingers together                             =R=\n    Then snap your fingers.\n  Stroke the palms of your hands together                            =H=\n  Point to the end of your little finger                             =U=\n  Put three fingers on the back of your hand                         =M=\n  One finger on the thumb                                            =B=\n  One finger on the back of your hand                                =L=\n  Point to the end of your fore finger                               =E=\n    Then snap your fingers.\n  Put the backs of your hands together                               =S=\n  Point to the end of your fore finger                               =E=\n  Link your little fingers together                                  =R=\n  Point to the end of your little finger                             =V=\n  Point to the end of the thumb                                      =A=\n  Lay two fingers on the back of your hand                           =N=\n  Point the fore finger to the middle joint of the other fore finger =T=\n    Then snap your fingers.\n\nAnd thus you may discourse upon any subject; if you practice it often you\nwill soon learn to do it very quick, even faster than you can write.\n\n\n\n\nPREDICTIONS OF THE WEATHER, ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES, &c.\n\n\nShould the horizon in the north wear a ruddy appearance in the evening,\nstormy and boisterous weather may be expected.\n\nIf the clouds in the south are ruddy in the evening, sunshiny and rainy\nweather will prevail for some time afterward.\n\nWhen the face of the moon is partially obscured by a light, thin vapor,\nrain will shortly follow.\n\nWhen the rays from the sun at midday are more than ordinarily dazzling,\nrainy weather will shortly succeed.\n\nIn summertime, when the swallows fly near to the ground, rainy weather\nwill assuredly soon follow.\n\nThe shrill crowing of a cock during rainy weather, is a sign that drought\nwill speedily prevail.\n\nWhen the smoke from the chimney falls down toward the ground, instead of\nrising upward, it is a sign that rainy weather will soon follow.\n\nIf on a foggy morning in summer the fog rises upward, it will be a fine\nday; if the fog falls to the ground, it will be wet.\n\nWhen, in summertime, you see the cattle grazing in a field gathering\ntogether in groups, be assured that a thunderstorm is approaching.\n\nWhen you see the fowls in a farmyard flocking together under some covert,\nbe assured that ungenial weather is about to succeed.\n\nWhen the crows, in flying over your head, make an extraordinary and\ndiscordant cawing, rain will come on shortly.\n\nWhen you see your dog or cat more than ordinarily restless, frisking about\nthe house in all directions, be assured that some boisterous weather will\nshortly follow.\n\nIn rainy weather, when you hear the chirping of the sparrows on the\nhousetop more shrill than usual, it is a sign that clear and dry weather\nwill quickly succeed.\n\nWhen you see a vapory fluid resting upon a stagnant pool in the fore part\nof the day, you may conclude that rainy weather will shortly come on.\nShould the vapor ascend and clear away, a continued drought may be\nanticipated.\n\nIn summer, when the atmosphere is dense and heavy, and there is scarcely a\nbreath of air, be assured that a thunderstorm is coming on.\n\nWhen the firmament is lighted up with meteoric phenomena, such as falling\nstars, globes of fire, &c., changeable and boisterous weather may be\nexpected to prevail.\n\nWhen the rising sun appears like a solid mass of fervent heated metal, and\nno rays appear to emanate therefrom, fine and dry weather may be\nconfidently anticipated.\n\nWhen the sun sets in a halo of ruddy brightness, genial and bright weather\nmay be fully relied on for the coming day.\n\nWhen the moon appears of a ruddy hue, stormy and boisterous weather may be\nexpected to follow.\n\nWhen the stars appear of a sparkling brightness, fine and genial weather\nmay be expected to prevail for some time. Should the stars appear obscure\nand dim, changeable and rainy weather may be anticipated.\n\nThe luminous appearance of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, in the\nfirmament, foretells the approach of stormy and boisterous weather.\n\nWhen the setting sun, in the autumn or winter seasons, appears ruddy, it\nis a sign that high and boisterous winds may be expected to blow from the\nnorth and northwest. When the sun at its rising, in the autumn or winter\nseasons, appears ruddy, it foretells that high and boisterous winds may be\nanticipated to blow from the south and southeast.\n\nWhen seabirds are observed flocking toward the shore, storms and tempests\nmay be confidently expected.\n\nWhen in the early autumn season the migratory birds are seen flocking\ntogether and taking their departure, it is a certain sign that rough and\nboisterous weather is approaching and that a severe winter may be\nanticipated.\n\nWhen the doves around a dovecote make a more than ordinary cooing, and\nfrequently pass in and out of their cote, it is a sign that a change of\nweather is near.\n\nWhen the robin approaches your habitation, it is a sign that wintry\nweather will shortly prevail.\n\nWhen there is a thick vapory mist resting on the tops of high hills in the\nmorning and remains there during the day, it is a sign that wet and\nungenial weather may be anticipated. Should the mist eventually rise\nupward and be evaporated by the sun\u2019s rays, a return to fine dry weather\nmay be looked for; if, however, the mist falls down into the valley, a\ncontinuation of wet weather will prevail.\n\nIf, in taking a walk, you should see a single magpie, it is a bad omen,\nespecially if it should fly past you to the left hand; but, if it should\npass you to the right hand, the good will counterbalance the bad. Should\nyou see two magpies together, expect to hear of something to your\nadvantage--a proposal of marriage, if single; or a legacy of money\nbequeathed to you. Should the magpies fly past you together, to your right\nhand, your own marriage, or the marriage of some one nearly related to\nyou, will occur in a short time. The seeing of several magpies together is\nconsidered a very fortunate omen.\n\nMay is considered an unlucky month to marry in, therefore avoid doing so\nif possible. If you can catch a snail by the horns on the first of May and\nthrow it over your shoulder, you will be lucky throughout the year. If\nyou place one on a slate on that day, it will describe by its turnings the\ninitials of your future partner\u2019s name.\n\nIf a young man or young woman, on going up a flight of stairs, should\nstumble in the middle of the flight, it is a sign that his or her marriage\nwill take place in a short time; if the stumbling should be near the top\nof the stairs, then his or her marriage will be immediately consummated.\n\nIf a marriage procession, on proceeding to church or chapel, should happen\nto meet a funeral procession, it is considered an unlucky omen to the\nexpectant bride; if, on returning after the solemnization of the rite, a\nfuneral procession should pass the bridal party, it is an unfavorable sign\nto the bridegroom.\n\nIf a young person, when seated at the tea-table, should observe one or\nmore stalks of the tea plant in the newly poured out cup, and if, on\nstirring the tea and holding the spoon in the middle of the liquid, the\nstalk or stalks should come close to the spoon handle, it is a token that\nhe or she will be soon married.\n\nWhen the house dog is unusually restless, and howls dismally in the night\ntime, it is a sign that sickness and death are about to visit the family\nto whom the dog belongs.\n\nWhen the wick of your candle shows a bright spark in the midst of the\nflame, it is a sign that a long absent friend is about to visit you.\n\nWhen the ribs of your fire grate are more than usual covered with flakes\nof soot, it is a sign that a stranger is about to visit your habitation.\n\n\n\n\nDIVINATION BY THE BIRDS OF THE AIR AND THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD.\n\n\nIt hath been duly observed, by the learned in all ages of the world, that\nour all-wise and beneficent Creator originally implanted in the frame of\nnature a means whereby mankind may attain to the knowledge of such future\ncontingencies as concern their welfare and happiness; and, more\nespecially, since we observe, even in the brute creation, that even the\nmost inconsiderable creatures upon the earth are more or less endowed with\na gift of foreknowledge. Thus the industrious bee, and laborious ant, lay\nin their summer store, in order to supply the necessary wants of an\ninclement winter, which they foreknow is yet to come; yet, even of all the\nwhole race of reptiles, the ant, the spider, and the bee, appear to be\nendowed with the greatest share of sagacity. The wisdom of the ants is\nconspicuous in forming themselves into a kind of republic and therein\nobserving, as it were, their own peculiar laws and policies; but the\ncunning of the spider seems to exceed that of most other insects; its\nvarious artifices to ensnare its prey is no less remarkable than its\ncontrivance of a cell or retreat behind its web, where it feasts upon its\ngame in safety and conceals the fragments of those carcasses it has\ndevoured, without exposing to public view the least remains of its\nbarbarity, which might tend to distinguish its place of abode, or create\nthe least jealousy in any sect, that their enemy was near. Into what\nhistory can we look to find people who are governed by laws equal to what\nwe observe in the republic of bees? What experience can we desire beyond\nwhat we observe in the cunning spider, to teach us to guard against the\nartifices of those who lay snares to catch the thoughtless and unwary? or\nwhat can exceed the indefatigable ant, in teaching us lessons of frugality\nand industry?\n\nThe badger, the hedgehog and the mole also provide themselves a magazine\nof plants and herbs, which they foreknow will enable them to lie concealed\nin their holes during the hard frosts of winter, contented with their\nprison, which affords them safety. Their holes are constructed with\namazing art, and generally have two apertures, that in case one should be\nbeset by an enemy, they may escape by the other. The doublings by the\nhare, the tricks of the fox to escape the hounds, are also astonishing\nindications of foresight and sagacity. The feathered race are likewise\nendowed with a similar faculty and often foretell an approaching storm a\nconsiderable time before it appears, by retiring in flocks to their holes\nand hiding places for shelter and protection. The birds of passage seem to\ninherit this gift in a remarkable degree, for they assemble together in\nprodigious flocks at an appointed hour, and take their leave before the\napproach of winter; which they see will destroy the flies and insects, as\nthey feed on nothing else. And it is no less extraordinary than true, that\nthese birds return as early as the sun brings forth this class of insects\ninto new life, and they have also the sagacity to find out and possess\ntheir old nests and habitations. The wise, provident forecast for\nself-preservation and safety is even extended to the innumerable\ninhabitants of the immense ocean, where we see the fishes, pressed by\nunceasing hunger, indiscriminately prey upon one another, the large upon\nthe small, even of its own species; whence the smaller fish in regular\ngradations, when in danger of being devoured, fly for an asylum to the\nshallow waters, where they know their enemy either cannot or dare not come\nto pursue them. And this pursuit of one species of fish after another, is\nby no means confined to a single region, for we find shoals of them\npursuing one another, from the vicinity of the pole even down to the\nequator, and thus the cod from the banks of the Newfoundland pursues the\nwhiting, which flies before it, even to the southern shores of Spain. It\nis astonishing also, that herrings, which appear to generate towards the\nnorth of Scotland, regularly make their way once a year to the British\nChannel. Their voyage is conducted with the utmost regularity, and the\ntime of their departure is fixed from the month of June to August. They\nalways assemble together before they set out and no stragglers are ever\nfound from the general body. It is impossible to assign any cause for this\nemigration, but it doubtless proceeds from the same instinctive impulse\nwith which all orders of animated nature are more or less imbued.\n\nNow observe, that when you go out of your house to do or transact any kind\nof business, and in the way you do see a man, or a bird going or flying,\nso that either of them do set themselves before you on your right hand,\nthat is a good signification in reference to your business; but when you\nshall go out of your house on any business whatsoever, and shall see a\nbird or a man before you on the left side of you, it is an ill sign in\nreference to your said business. When either a man or a bird shall thus\npass before you, coming from the right side of you and bending towards the\nleft, goeth out of your sight, that is a good sign concerning your\nbusiness. When you do find a man going, or a bird flying, and then he\nrests himself before you on your right side, and you seeing it, this is\nalso a good sign of success in your business. But when you see a man or a\nbird bending from your right side to your left, it is an ill sign\nconcerning your business; when a man or a bird comes behind you, and goes\nfaster than you, but before he cometh at you he rests, or the same before\nyou came at him, he rests, and you seeing him on your right side, it is to\nyou a good sign. But when this happens on the left side, it is an evil\nsign. When a man or a bird, coming from your left side, and passing to the\nright, goeth out of your sight without resting, it is a good sign. If a\nman or bird, coming from your right hand, passing behind your back to the\nleft, and you see him resting anywhere, this is an evil sign. All the\nauspicia which first happeneth in the beginning of any business, ought not\nto be taken notice of, as if in the beginning of any work you find that\nrats have been gnawing your clothes, then insist upon your undertakings.\nIf, on going out of your house, you happen to stumble on the threshold, or\nif in the way you happen to dash your foot against anything, then forbear\nyour journey; if any ill omen ever happens at the beginning of your\nbusiness, then put it off for a while, lest you be completely disappointed\ntherein. If a crow, raven or a jackdaw do croak over any person, it doth\nshow much evil of a serious nature. The magpie informs you that you will\nsoon hear news and come into company; but whether such news be good or\nbad, observe whether it comes from the right hand or the left. The screech\nowl is always unfortunate, for, about the 17th Oct., 1807, Grantham church\nwas a repository for a number of owls every evening, for about one month,\nwhen it followed that, before that time next year, the same church was\nactually robbed of all its plate and money, to a large amount, by a gang\nof villains, in the dead of the night, to the great loss and detriment of\nthe whole parish. If you meet sparrows, it is unfortunate, except for\nlove. Flies indicate importunity and impudent affronts; cocks meeting\nyou, or crowing against your house, inform you of visitors coming and\nsuccess in your journeys and business. If you meet a hare, a mule, or a\nhog, it is an ill omen; to meet horses in a carriage is good, but if you\nmeet an ass, expect trouble; while to meet sheep and goats is very good\nand indicates prosperity in your affairs; if you either meet a dog or\noxen, you may expect the same success, for it is good; mice indicate that\nyou will soon meet with danger; locusts making a stand in any place,\nhindereth a person from their wishes and is an ill omen; on the contrary,\ngrasshoppers promote a journey and foretell a good event of things. The\nspider weaving a line downwards, signifies hope of money to come; as also\nthe ants having a nest near your door is good, because they know how to\nprovide for themselves, and portend security and riches. If you meet with\na snake, take care of an ill-tongued enemy; a viper signifies lewd women\nand wicked children; an eel shows a man that is displeased with everybody.\nBut of all the various auspices and omens, there is none more effectual\nand potent than man, none that doth signify the truth more clearly. You\nmust, therefore, diligently note and duly observe the condition of that\nman you meet, or that meeteth you; his age, profession, station, gesture,\nmotion, exercise, complexion, habit, name, words, speech, &c.; for, seeing\nthere are in all other animals so many discoveries or presages, yet those\nare all more efficacious and clear which are infused into the soul of man.\n\n\n\n\nPHYSIOGNOMY.\n\n\n_Strength of Body_ is shown by stiff hair, large bones, firm and robust\nlimbs, short muscular neck, firm and erect carriage, head broad and high,\nforehead short and peaked, bristly hair, large feet, harsh unequal voice\nand florid complexion.\n\n_Weakness of Body_ is distinguished by a small, ill-proportioned head,\nnarrow shoulders, soft skin and pale complexion.\n\n_Long Life_ is indicated by strong teeth, sanguine temperament, middle\nsize, large, deep and ruddy lines in the hand, large muscles, stooping\nshoulders, full chest, firm flesh, clear complexion, slow growth, wide\nears and large eyelids.\n\n_Short Life_ may be inferred from a thick tongue, the appearance of the\nmolars before the age of puberty, thin uneven teeth, confused lines in the\nhand, and quick but small growth.\n\n_Intellect_ is denoted by thin skin, middle stature, bright eyes, fair\ncomplexion, straight and fine hair, eyebrows joined, affable manner,\nmoderation in mirth, and the temples slightly concave.\n\n_A Dunce_ may be known by a swollen neck, plump arms, sides and loins, a\nround head, fleshy forehead, pale eyes, dull, heavy look, small joints,\nsnuffling nostrils, proneness to laughter, little hands, ill-proportioned\nhead, either too large or too small, blubber lips, short fingers and thick\nlegs.\n\n_Fortitude_ is promised from a wide mouth, sonorous voice, slow, grave and\nalways equal, upright posture, large, open, steadfast eyes, the hair high\nabove the forehead, the head much compressed or flattened, the forehead\nsquare and high, the extremities large and robust, the neck firm though\nnot fleshy, large chest, dark complexion.\n\n_Intrepidity_ often resides in a small body, with ruddy countenance,\nfrowning eyebrows, small mouth, prominent nose and large lines in the\nhand.\n\n_Boldness_ is characterised by a prominent mouth, rugged appearance, rough\nforehead, arched eyebrows, large nostrils and teeth, short neck, strong\narms, ample chest, square shoulders and stern countenance.\n\n_Timidity_ resides where we find a concave neck, pale color, weak eyes,\nsoft hair, plump breast, shrill voice, small mouth, thin lips, broad, thin\nhands and small shambling feet.\n\n_Prudence_ is generally distinguished by a head which is flat on the\nsides, broad, square forehead, slightly concave in the middle, soft voice,\nbroad chest, thin hair, bright eyes, large ears, aquiline nose.\n\n_Irascibility_ may be seen in an erect carriage, clear skin, solemn voice,\nopen nostrils, moist temples with superficial veins, thick neck, quick\npace, bloodshot eyes, large unequal teeth.\n\n_Melancholy_ is denoted by a wrinkled face, dejected eyes, slow pace,\nfixed look and deliberate respiration.\n\n_Amorousness_ shows a fair slender face, hair exuberant on head, face and\nlimbs, moist shining eyes, wide nostrils, prominent lips.\n\n_Gaiety_ shows a rosy agreeable countenance, a musical voice, an agile\nbody and soft flesh.\n\n_Envy_ appears with a wrinkled forehead, frowning, dejected look, pale\ncountenance and dry, rough skin.\n\n_Gentleness_ may be distinguished by a soft and moist palm, frequent\nshutting of the eyes, soft movement, slow speech, fine hair.\n\n_Bashfulness_ may be discovered by moist half-closed eyes, moderate pace,\nslow speech, blushing countenance.\n\n_Sobriety_ is accompanied by equal respiration, regular features, easy\ncarriage and sedate manners.\n\n_Mental Strength_ is signified by straight hair, a small body, shining\neyes, grave intense voice, stout muscular body, broad back and shoulders.\n\n_Good Memory_ is common in those persons who are small, yet better formed\nin the upper than the lower parts, delicate skin, inclined to baldness,\ncrooked nose, thick teeth, large ears.\n\n_Bad Memory_ is observable in persons who are larger in their superior\nthan inferior parts, hairy hands and body, coarse skin.\n\n_Good Sight_ is enjoyed by those persons who have black, thick, straight\neyelashes, large bushy eyebrows.\n\n_Hearing_ is most acute in those whose ears are well furnished with\ncartilage, well channelled and hairy.\n\n_Smelling_ is most perfect in those who have large noses, descending very\nnear the mouth, neither too moist nor too dry.\n\n_Tasting_ is dainty in such as have a spongy, soft tongue, well moistened\nwith saliva.\n\n_Delicacy of Touch_ is remarked in those who have sensitive nerves, soft\nskin, moderately warm and dry.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PLEASURES OF DREAMING.\n\n\n    \u201cWe always dream; the life of man\u2019s a dream,\n    In which fresh tumults agitate his breast,\n    Till the kind hand of death unbolts the bars\n    Which clog the noble and aspiring soul,\n    Then, then we truly wake.\u201d--HIGGINS.\n\n                      --\u201cShroud thy hated light,\n    Thou rising sun; nor summon with such speed,\n    The o\u2019erlabored world to toils of a new day;\n    Why, flatter\u2019d mortals, will you wake to cares,\n    When sleep, in kind delusion, may divert\n    Your pensive mind with pleasing images?\n    A dream sets free the captive; can restore\n    Lost fields to soldiers; to wreck\u2019d merchants wealth.\n    In dreams the exile visits his sweet home.\n    And o\u2019er the sparkling bowl relates at large\n    His past distresses to his wondering friends.\n    The lover, too, the sad forsaken lover.\n    May dream, and feign the falsest mistress true.\u201d--TATE.\n\nIt has been truthfully observed, that half the life of even the most\nmiserable is as unruffled as that of the most happy of men, for that\nportion is spent in sleep--in the enjoyment of quiet repose--in peace and\nin security. A quiet reliance upon Providence, a conscience void of\noffence, temperance and regularity, every person can command, and these\nare the only requisites to secure sound and pleasant sleep and pleasant\ndreams. In these every one has happy moments--and in this life we cannot\nexpect more than transient gleams of sunshine--a mixture of sours and\nsweets, whose agreeable or distasteful flavor depends much more upon\nourselves than is commonly imagined.\n\nAddison, the virtuous and religious Addison; often dwells in his writings\nupon dreams--published many of his stories as the result of\nthem--sometimes treated of them seriously and earnestly, and at others\nbrought all his powers of ridicule into play to expose their absurdity.\n\u201cDreams,\u201d he says, \u201care an instance of that agility and perfection which\nis natural to the faculties of the mind, where they are disengaged from\nthe body. The soul is clogged and retarded in her operations when she acts\nin conjunction with a companion that is so heavy and unwieldy in her\nmotions. But in dreams it is wonderful to observe with what sprightliness\nand alacrity she exerts herself. The flow of speech makes unpremeditated\nharangues, or converses readily in languages that they are but little\nacquainted with. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartee\nand points of wit. There is not a more painful action of the mind than\ninvention; yet in dreams it works with that ease and activity that we are\nnot sensible of when the faculty is employed. For instance, I believe\nevery one, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or\nletters, in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is\nimposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the compositions of\nanother.\u201d In another part of the same paper he gives the two following\nproblems: \u201cSupposing a man, always happy in his dreams and miserable in\nhis waking thoughts, and that his life was equally divided between\nthem--whether he would be more happy or miserable? Were a man a king in\nhis dreams and a beggar awake, and dreamed as consequentially, and in\ncontinued unbroken schemes, as he thinks when awake--whether he would be\nin reality a king or a beggar, or rather, whether he would not be both?\u201d\n\nAddison was of opinion that some useful instruction might be derived even\nfrom a dream: \u201cSince we have so little time to spare, that none of it may\nbe lost, I see no reason why we should neglect to examine those imaginary\nscenes we are presented with in sleep, only because they have less reality\nin them than our waking meditation. A traveler would bring his judgment in\nquestion, who should despise the directions of his map for want of real\nroads in it, because here stands a dot instead of a town, or a cipher\ninstead of a city, and it must be a long day\u2019s journey to travel through\ntwo or three inches. Fancy in dreams gives us much such another landscape\nof life as that does of countries, and though its appearance may seem\nstrangely jumbled together, we may often observe such traces and footsteps\nof noble thoughts, as, if carefully pursued, might lead us into proper\ncourse of action. There is so much rapture and ecstacy in our fancied\nmisery, that though the inactivity of the body has given occasion for\ncalling sleep the image of death, the briskness of the fancy affords us a\nstrong intimation of something within us that can never die.\u201d\n\nAddison, however, could treat with a happy ridicule all those everyday\ndreams with which most persons are so familiar and gives several cases\nfrom imaginary correspondents, some dissatisfied with the non-fulfilment\nof their nocturnal visions, and others annoyed at being disturbed in the\nmidst of their delightful reveries. \u201cI have received,\u201d says Addison,\n\u201cnumerous complaints from several delicious dreamers, desiring me to\ninvent some method of silencing those noisy slaves, whose occupations lead\nthem to take their early rounds about the city in the morning, doing a\ndeal of mischief and working strange confusion in the affairs of its\ninhabitants. Several monarchs have done me the honor to acquaint me, how\noften they have been shook from their respective thrones by the rattling\nof a coach or by the rumbling of a wheelbarrow; and many private\ngentlemen, I find, have been bawled out of vast estates by fellows not\nworth three-pence. A fair lady was just upon the point of being married to\na young, rich, handsome, ingenious nobleman, when an impertinent tinker,\npassing by, forbade the banns; and a hopeful youth, who had been newly\nadvanced to great honor and preferment, was forced by a neighboring\ncobbler to resign all for an old song. It has been represented to me that\nthose inconsiderate rascals do nothing but go about dissolving of\nmarriages, and spoiling of fortunes, impoverishing rich, and ruining great\npeople, interrupting beauties in the midst of their conquests and generals\nin the course of their victories; a boisterous peripatetic hardly goes\nthrough a street without waking half a dozen kings and princes to open\ntheir shops, or clean shoes, frequently transforming sceptres into\nparing-shovels and proclamations into bills. I have by me a letter from a\nyoung statesman, who in five or six hours came to be Emperor of Europe,\nafter which he made war upon the Great Turk, routed him horse and foot,\nand was crowned lord of the universe in Constantinople; the conclusion of\nall his successes is that, on the twelfth instant, about seven in the\nmorning, his Imperial Majesty was deposed by a chimney sweeper. On the\nother hand, I have epistolary testimonies of gratitude from many miserable\npeople, who owe to this clamorous tribe frequent deliverance from great\nmisfortunes. A small coalman, by waking one of these distressed gentlemen,\nsaved him from ten years\u2019 imprisonment; an honest watchman, bidding a loud\ngood-morrow to another, freed him from the notice of many potent enemies\nand brought all their designs against him to nothing. A certain\nvaletudinarian confesses he has often been cured of a sore throat by the\nhoarseness of a carman and relieved from a fit of the gout by the sound of\nold shoes.\n\n\u201cA citizen who is waked by one of these criers, may regard him as a kind\nof remembrancer, come to admonish him that it is time to return to the\ncircumstances he had overlooked all the night time; to leave off fancying\nwhat he is not, and prepare to act suitably to the condition he is really\nplaced in.\u201d\n\nThat may be called a dream which proceeds either from the spirit of the\nphantasy and intellect united together, or by the illustration of the\nagent intellect above our souls, or by the true revelation of some divine\npower in a quiet and purified mind; for by this our soul receives true\noracles, and abundantly yields prophecies to us; as in dreams we seem both\nto ask questions and learn to find them out. Also many doubtful things,\nmany policies, many things unknown, unwished for, and never attempted by\nour minds, are manifested to us in dreams; also the representation of\nthings unknown and unknown places appear to us, and the images of men,\nboth alive and dead; and things to come are foretold, and also which at\nany time have happened are revealed, which we know not by any report. And\nthese kind of dreams need not any interpretation, as those which belong to\ndivination, not to foreknowledge; and it comes to pass that they who have\ndreams for the most part understand them not; for, as to have dreams is\nfrom the strength of imagination, so to understand them is from the\nstrength of understanding. He, therefore, whose intellect being\noverwhelmed by too much commerce of the flesh, is in a deep sleep, or his\nfantastic power or spirit is too dull and unpolished, so that it cannot\nreceive the species and representation which flow from the superior\nintellect; this man is altogether unfit for the receiving of dreams and\nprophesying by them. Therefore it is necessary that he who would receive\ntrue dreams, should keep a pure, undisturbed and imaginative spirit; and\nso compass it that it may be made worthy of the knowledge and government\nby the mind, for such a spirit is most fit for prophesying and is a most\nclear glass of all images which flow everywhere from all things. When,\ntherefore, we are sound in body, not disturbed in mind, our intellect not\nmade dull by heavy meats and strong drink, not sad through poverty, nor\nprovoked through lust, nor incited by any vice, nor stirred up by wrath or\nanger, not being irreligiously and profanely inclined, not given to\nlevity, nor lost in drunkenness; but chastely going to bed, fall asleep,\nthen our pure and divine soul being free from all the evils above recited,\nand separated from all hurtful thoughts, and now freed, by dreaming, is\nendowed with this divine spirit as an instrument, and receives those beams\nand representations which are darted down as it were, and shine forth from\nthe divine mind into itself, in a deifying glass. It does more certainly,\nmore clearly and efficaciously, behold all things, than by the vulgar\ninquiry of the intellect and by the discourse of reason. The divine person\ninstructing the soul, being invited to their society by the opportunity of\nthe nocturnal solitariness, neither will that spirit of genius be wanting\nto him when he is awake, which rules all our actions. But there are four\nkinds of true dreams, viz.: the first, matutine, _i. e._ between sleeping\nand waking; the second, that which one sees concerning another; the third,\nthat whose interpretation is shown to the same dreamer in the nocturnal\nvision; and, lastly, that which is related to the same dreamer in the\nnocturnal vision. But natural things and their own co-mixtures likewise\nbelong unto wise men, and we often use such to receive oracles from a\nspirit by a dream, which are either by perfumes, unctions, meats, drinks,\nrings, seals, &c. Now those who are desirous to receive oracles in or\nthrough a dream, let them make themselves a ring of the sun or Saturn for\nthis purpose. There are likewise images of dreams, which being put under\nthe head when one goes to sleep, effectually give true dreams of whatever\nthe mind hath before determined, of which as follows:\n\nThou shalt make an image of the sun, the figure whereof must be a man\nsleeping upon the bosom of an angel; which thou shalt make when Leo\nascends, the sun being in the ninth house in Aries; then you must write\nupon the figure the name of the effect desired, and in the hand of the\nangel the name and character of the intelligence of the sun, which is\nMichael.\n\nLet the same image be made in Virgo ascending, Mercury being fortunate in\nAries in the ninth, or Gemini ascending, Mercury being fortunate in the\nninth house in Aquarius; and let him be received by Saturn with a\nfortunate aspect, and let the name of the spirit (which is Raphael) be\nwritten upon it. Let the same likewise be made, Libra ascending, Venus\nbeing received from Mercury in Gemini in the ninth house, and write upon\nit the name of the angel of Venus (which is Annael). Again you make the\nsame image, Aquarius ascending, Saturn fortunately possessing the ninth in\nhis exaltation, which is Libra, and let there be written upon it the name\nof the angel of Saturn, (which is Cassi-al). The same may be made with\nCancer ascending, the moon being received by Jupiter and Venus in Pisces,\nand being fortunately placed in the ninth house, and write upon it the\nspirit of the moon (which is Gabriel).\n\nThere are likewise made rings of dreams of wonderful efficacy, and there\nare rings of the sun and Saturn, and the constellation of them is when the\nsun or Saturn ascend in their exaltation in the ninth house of the\nnativity, and write and engrave upon the rings the name of the sun or\nSaturn, and by these rules you may know how and by what means to\nconstitute more of yourself. But know this, that such images work nothing\n(as they are simply images), except they are vivified by a spiritual and\ncelestial virtue and chiefly by the ardent desire and firm intent of the\nsoul of the operator. But who can give a soul to an image, or make a\nstone, or metal, or clay, or wood, or wax, or paper to live? Certainly no\nman whatever; for this arcanum doth enter into an artist of a stiff neck;\nhe only hath it who transcends the progress of angels and comes to the\nvery Archtype himself.\n\nHe who is desirous of receiving true oracles by dreams, let him abstain\nfrom supper, from drink, and be otherwise well disposed, so his brain will\nbe free from turbulent vapors; let him also have his bedchamber fair and\nclean, exorcised and consecrated, then let him perfume the same with some\nconvenient fumigation, and let him anoint his temples with some\nefficacious unguent and put a ring of dreams upon his finger; then let him\ntake one of the images we have spoken of and place the same under his\nhead; then let him address himself to sleep, meditating upon that thing\nwhich he desires to know. So shall he receive a most certain and undoubted\noracle by a dream, when the moon goes through the sign of the ninth\nrevolution of his nativity, and when she is in the ninth sign from the\nsign of perfection.\n\nThis is the way whereby we may obtain all sciences and arts whatever,\nwhether astrology, occult philosophy, physic, &c., or else suddenly and\nperfectly with a true illumination of our intellect, although all inferior\nfamiliar spirits whatsoever conduce to this effect, and sometimes also\nevil spirits sensibly inform us intrinsically and extrinsically.\n\n\n\n\nTHE WAY TO GET RICH\n\n\n\u201cThere is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads\nto fortune.\u201d\n\n    \u201cHe that by the plough would thrive,\n    Himself must either hold or drive;\n    For age and want save while you may,\n    No morning\u2019s sun lasts a whole day;\n    Get what you can, and what you get, hold,\n    \u2019Tis a stone that will turn all your lead into gold;\n    Therefore be ruled by me, I pray,\n    Save something for a rainy day.\u201d\n\n_Remember_, that time is money, for he that can earn a dollar a day at his\nlabor, and goes abroad, or sits at home one-half of that day, though he\nspend but six cents during his diversion or idleness, he ought not to\nreckon that the only expense; he has really wasted, or rather thrown away,\nfifty cents besides.\n\n_Remember_, that credit is money; if a man lets his money lie in my hands\nafter it is due, because he has a good opinion of my credit, he gives me\nthe interest, or so much as I can make of the money during that time; this\namounts to a very considerable sum, where a man has large credit and also\nmakes a good use of it.\n\n_Remember_, that money is of a prolific or multiplying nature; money will\nproduce money, and its offspring will produce more; and so five shillings\nturned is six, being turned again is seven and three-pence, and so on,\ntill it becomes a hundred pounds; and the more there is of it, the more it\nwill produce on every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and\nquicker; and he who throws away a crown, destroys all that it might have\nproduced, even some scores of pounds.\n\n_Remember_, that six pounds a year is a groat a day, for this little sum\n(which may be daily wasted either in time or expenses unperceived), if a\nproper use be made of it, he may, on his own security, have the constant\npossession and use of a hundred and twenty pounds. So much in stock,\nbriskly turned by an industrious man, will always produce the greatest\nadvantage to the tradesman. Remember this proverb, that the good paymaster\nis lord of another man\u2019s purse, for he who is known to pay punctually and\nexactly at the time he promises, may, at any time, and on any occasion,\nraise all the money his friend can spare. This is sometimes of great use;\nnext to industry and frugality nothing can contribute more to the raising\nof a man in the world than punctuality in all his dealings. Therefore,\nnever keep borrowed money one single hour beyond the time promised, lest\nthe disappointment should shut up your friend\u2019s purse forever, as the most\ntrifling actions that affect a man\u2019s credit ought always to be avoided.\nThe sound of the hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night,\nbeing heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he\nsees you at a gaming table, or hears your voice in a tavern, when you\nshould be at work, he sends for his money the very next day and demands it\nbefore it is convenient for you to pay him. Beware of thinking all your\nown that you possess and of living accordingly. This is a mistake that\nmany people of credit fall into; but in order to prevent this, always keep\nan exact account both of your expenses and also of your daily income and\nprofits. For if you will only just take the trouble at first to enumerate\nparticulars, it will discover unto you how wonderfully trifling expenses\nmount up to a large sum; by which you will also discern what might have\nbeen, and also what may for the future be saved without causing any great\ninconvenience. In short, the way to obtain riches, if you desire it, is as\nplain as the way to the market, which depends chiefly on two things, viz.:\nindustry and frugality; and take care that you waste neither time nor\nmoney, but daily make use of both; if you take care of the hours and days,\nthe weeks, months and years will also take care of themselves. Constant\nexperience proves that any business being first well contrived, is more\nthan half done--for a sleeping fox catches no poultry; there will be sleep\nenough in the grave, and also, that lost time is seldom found again, for\nthat which we generally call time enough, always proves little enough; for\nsloth makes things difficult, while industry makes them easy. He that\nrises late must trot hard all day and shall scarce overtake his business\nat night--for laziness travels so slow that poverty soon overtakes him.\nDrive your business, but let not that drive you; for early to bed and\nearly to rise, is the way to become healthy, wealthy and wise. Industry\nneed not wish, while he who lives on a vain hope will die fasting; for we\nfind that there is nothing to be done or accomplished under the sun\nwithout labor. He that hath a trade, hath an estate, and he that hath a\nprofession, hath an office and profit with honor; but then the trade must\nbe worked at, and the profession well followed, or they will not enable\nyou to pay rent and taxes. At the working man\u2019s house hunger looks in but\ndares not enter; for industry pays debts, while despair increases them.\nDiligence is the mother of good luck; as Solomon saith: \u201cThe diligent hand\nmaketh rich, while he that dealeth with a slack hand becometh poor; for\nGod gives all things to industry.\u201d Then plow deep while the sluggards\nsleep, and you shall have plenty, while others have reason to complain of\nhard times. Therefore keep working while it is called to-day, for you know\nnot how much you may be hindered to-morrow; and never leave that business\nto be done to-morrow which you can do to-day; for since you are not sure\nof a single hour, throw not that away. How many are they who live daily by\ntheir wits, and who often break from want of a stock in hand, while\nindustry gives comfort, plenty and respect. Keep your shop well and then\nyour shop will keep you. For it sometimes happens that the eyes of a\nmaster will do more work than both his hands, and more especially if his\nhead be any reasonable length; for the want of care doth more damage than\nthe want of knowledge. If you do not overlook your workmen, you may just\nas well leave them your purse open; the trusting too much to the care of\nothers has completely ruined many a man. If you would be wealthy, think of\nbeing careful and saving; for\n\n    \u201cWomen and wine, game and deceit,\n    Make the wealth small and the wants great.\u201d\n\nThat which maintains one vice, would bring up two children. And if you\nwish to know the value of money, only just go and try to borrow a little;\nhe that goes borrowing, goes sorrowing, and, indeed, so doth he who lends\nit unto such people, when he goes to try to get it back again. Pride that\ndines on vanity, sups on content and often breakfasts with plenty, dines\nwith poverty and sups with infamy, creates envy, and hastens misfortunes;\nfor it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Creditors have generally\nmuch better memories than debtors, who are also a kind of superstitious\nset, great observers of set or appointed days and times; so that those\nhave but a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter; for expenses are\nalways so constant and certain, that it is much easier to build two\nchimneys than to keep one in fuel. Rather go to bed supperless than rise\nin debt. Always do unto others as you would wish to be done by, is the\nfirst fundamental law of natural justice.\n\n\n\n\nLEAVES OF DESTINY.\n\n\n_Directions for Consulting the Sibyl._--Draw for a number from slips\nnumbered from 1 to 100, and see corresponding number in Leaves of Destiny;\nor, simply call out numbers selected.\n\n      1. You\u2019ll meet this year on Brighton Strand,\n         One destined for your heart and hand.\n\n      2. Choose one--if you are shrewd,\n         No safety lies in multitude.\n\n      3. Endless flirtation\n         Doth seem your vocation.\n\n      4. Bracing air and embracing arms,\n         Give Coney Island especial charms.\n\n      5. Young or old? Love or gold?\n         Hot or cold? Given or sold?\n         Toss odd or even--you\u2019ll be told.\n\n      6. Some natures change on the change of name\n         But like the rose you\u2019ll be the same.\n\n      7. For music and balls,\n         You\u2019ll have nursery squalls.\n\n      8. The right one cometh from New York,\n         With heart and purse as light as cork.\n\n      9. Away with pride and cold disdain,\n         Or you\u2019ll too long a maid remain.\n\n     10. Don\u2019t have for motto, \u201cBoth best,\u201d\n         But--\u201cChoose one, look at the rest.\u201d\n\n     11. \u2019Tis simply true, tho\u2019 you may laugh,\n         That you will worship a golden calf.\n\n     12. This year a lover will with pride,\n         Watch thee sporting in the tide.\n\n     13. At Ocean Grove you\u2019ll forsake worldly notions,\n         Drink nothing but tea and attend your devotions.\n\n     14. A heart and fortune you will gain,\n         In this summer\u2019s grand campaign.\n\n     15. Before you go too far,\n         Be sure there\u2019s not another side\n         The brighter side to mar.\n\n     16. A life both long and wisely spent,\n         With children to your heart\u2019s content.\n\n     17. Happy when single, but not content,\n         You\u2019ll marry in haste and soon repent.\n\n     18. Lovers and books romantic--\n         Music of the grand Atlantic--\n         This year will make you nearly frantic.\n\n     19. The \u201cMighty Dollar\u201d cannot buy\n         The love for which in vain you sigh.\n\n     20. Look in the glass and you will see\n         Your source of power and frailty.\n\n     21. A well known line you may transpose--\n         \u201cA thorn is always near a rose.\u201d\n\n     22. You nobly strive to make it known\n         \u201c\u2019Tis bad for man to be alone.\u201d\n\n     23. Before the present year is out,\n         Your wedding cards will be about.\n\n     24. Drifting away, day by day!\n         No one to say, \u201cStay! oh, stay!\u201d\n\n     25. A heartless flirt! you\u2019ll penance do\n         For all the innocents you slew.\n\n     26. To you, I\u2019m afraid, it is useless to preach\n         About the temptations of Rockaway Beach.\n\n     27. Merry and free your revelry!\n         Soon tired you\u2019ll be of deviltry.\n\n     28. You\u2019ll give up athletics;\n         And take to \u00e6sthetics.\n\n     29. On some fine day, not very remote,\n         You\u2019ll meet your match on a Rockaway boat.\n\n     30. Your head is hot, your heart is cold--\n         I pity your lot when you grow old.\n\n     31. When you\u2019re seized with fits \u00e6sthetic,\n         Take at once a strong emetic.\n\n     32. With throbbing heart and trembling hand\n         Soon at the altar you will stand.\n\n     33. You\u2019ll count among your future joys,\n         Six little girls, six little boys.\n\n     34. Before you sip, take firm grip,\n         You\u2019ll have no slip \u2019tween cup and lip.\n\n     35. Your pace, I fear, is rather fast--\n         Your love\u2019s by far too hot to last!\n\n     36. The greatest blessing you will find,\n         That Love should be completely blind.\n\n     37. Inconstant as the fickle wind,\n         From day to day you\u2019ll change your mind.\n\n     38. Newport is the grand resort\n         For those, like you, intent on sport.\n\n     39. A blow on the pier--a plunge in the brine--\n         Is all that\u2019s required to make you divine.\n\n     40. Lovers come and quickly go\n         When they find your heart like dough.\n\n     41. The slightest rebuff makes you ready to die,\n         So fatal the kick from a gay butterfly.\n\n     42. Like Wilde and such \u00e6sthetic guys,\n         You ape an angel in disguise.\n\n     43. When weary of sands and the wild waves\u2019 play,\n         To the glorious White Mountains fly away.\n\n     44. So rich, but sad; suppose you try\n         The Tonics of Adversity.\n\n     45. Ever dreaming, never doing,\n         You\u2019ll gain nought by seaside wooing.\n\n     46. Unless you resolve more social to be\n         You must stop at home like the Heathen Chinee.\n\n     47. You will love and run away,\n         And live to love another day.\n\n     48. You\u2019ll have good cause to bless the day\n         Your eyes beheld the famed Cape May.\n\n     49. You shall have a busy summer,\n         Flirting hard with each new comer.\n\n     50. Be merry now; no more you\u2019ll laugh\n         When you have found your _bitter_-half.\n\n     51. Your sorrow may endure a night,\n         But joy will come with morning\u2019s light.\n\n     52. The darling of your heart\u2019s devotion\n         Is on the broad Atlantic Ocean.\n\n     53. Cheer up! cheer up! I plainly see\n         Bright golden days in store for thee.\n\n     54. You\u2019ll go back when the weather cools,\n         To taffy-pulling and singing schools.\n\n     55. Like the flow and ebb of tide\n         Your spirits rise and soon subside.\n\n     56. Bright visions rise as this year falls,\n         Of concerts, theatres and balls.\n\n     57. At Saratoga\u2019s famous Springs\n         An era bright for you begins.\n\n     58. Sing when you\u2019re sad\n         And soon you\u2019ll feel glad.\n\n     59. When summer\u2019s heat and sport are o\u2019er\n         In Florida you\u2019ll seek for more.\n\n     60. Avoid all that sin and cruel temptation\n         Which assail young folk in the summer vacation.\n\n     61. You\u2019re building castles in the air,\n         To end in grief and dark despair.\n\n     62. On Sea Girt Beach entranced you\u2019ll be\n         By charms more rare than scenery.\n\n     63. Sunflower, lily and daffodil\n         An empty purse will never fill.\n\n     64. Blue and white your sole delight,\n         Yellow and black are put to flight.\n\n     65. You lack the courage to say \u201cNo,\u201d\n         Hence all your troubles here below.\n\n     66. Lawn Tennis is the pastime sweet\n         Where a life partner you will meet.\n\n     67. Enjoy the sunshine while you may--\n         Too soon the chance will pass away.\n\n     68. Avoid whate\u2019er your spirit vexes--\n         Despise \u201cold women\u201d of both sexes.\n\n     69. Smiles and tears, hopes and fears,\n         The rainbow hues of early years.\n\n     70. Sweet and bright as the month of May,\n         Your life shall seem a holiday.\n\n     71. You once extolled the \u201cAge of Reason;\u201d\n         Your mind will change this very season.\n\n     72. You prized too much, as you\u2019ll confess,\n         A life of single blessedness.\n\n     73. You\u2019ll break the heartless law of fashion,\n         And own at last the tender passion.\n\n     74. Like Oscar and his crew,\n         You are \u201ctoo utterly too too.\u201d\n\n     75. Your sole recreation--\n         To cause a sensation.\n\n     76. Your photo book will change this year\n         And former fav\u2019rites disappear.\n\n     77. To keep single you\u2019ll contrive,\n         Up to prudent twenty-five.\n\n     78. Your destiny is hard to fix,\n         Bitter and sweet so freely mix.\n\n     79. Love requited--vows well plighted!\n         Hearts and hands for aye united!\n\n     80. This year a treasure you\u2019ll discover--\n         A brownstone house and a brimstone lover.\n\n     81. The wedding bells soon merrily\n         Shall ring a chime to gladden thee.\n\n     82. Sighing and dying, and wretchedly trying\n         To look well pleased when you\u2019d like to be crying.\n\n     83. When you go out to sea to fish,\n         You\u2019ll catch the very thing you wish.\n\n     84. To Asbury Park you will repair,\n         Where men may smoke and drink--the air.\n\n     85. You soon must solve the problem grave--\n         \u201cAn old man\u2019s pet or young one\u2019s slave?\u201d\n\n     86. If they are blest, whose quiver\u2019s full,\n         Your lot shall be right joyful.\n\n     87. Some dress to live; but you, I guess,\n         Like many, only live to dress.\n\n     88. A sphere in life you will ensure,\n         Where men are true and women pure.\n\n     89. Tennis, polo, bathing, boating,\n         Picnic, music, flirting, doting--\n         These your pastimes best worth noting.\n\n     90. When vanities bring weariness,\n         You\u2019ll seek a rural wilderness--\n         Meet penance for your wickedness!\n\n     91. Unless you\u2019re a Mormon or a Turk,\n         Contented you\u2019ll be with this year\u2019s work.\n\n     92. Your seaside dreams of love and money\n         Will end in country milk and honey.\n\n     93. How sweet to thee is love\u2019s young dream,\n         When gliding down the placid stream.\n\n     94. Dear captive feet are now set free,\n         To skip and dance right merrily,\n         As winter stealeth o\u2019er the sea.\n\n     95. You\u2019ll meet many cranks at the seaside this year;\n         It must be the Comet that made them so queer.\n\n     96. You\u2019ll have, in place of dance hall skips,\n         Holy greetings from brethren\u2019s lips--\n         Prayer meetings: good fellowships.\n\n     97. The happy day is drawing nigh--\n         To all your pains and cares good-bye!\n\n     98. The summer dies and birds of prey\n         To city haunts now fly away.\n\n     99. You\u2019re leaving now to meet no more,\n         The only one you could adore.\n\n    100. Last of all, and not too late,\n         Fortune comes to those who wait.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 1.\n\nCONTAINING 100 SONGS.\n\n\n    A handful of earth.\n    A warrior bold.\n    All on account of Eliza.\n    Are you going to the hop this evening.\n    A violet from mother\u2019s grave.\n    Angel\u2019s whisper.\n    Betsy and I are out--_Recitation_.\n    Biddy, the ballet girl.\n    Be home early to-night, my dear boy.\n    Brave huzzars.\n    Betsy destroys the paper--_Recitation_.\n    Blue bells of Scotland.\n    Baby\u2019s got a tooth.\n    Beautiful leaves.\n    Betsy and I hafe bust up--_Recitation_.\n    Blue Alsatian mountains.\n    Chickens in the garden.\n    Cows are in the corn.\n    Charge of the light brigade--_Recit._\n    Colored hop.\n    Camptown races.\n    Come where my love lies dreaming.\n    Decision in \u201cThe Gipsy\u2019s Warning.\u201d\n    Double-breasted mansion on the square.\n    Dar am honey on dese lips.\n    Down in a coal mine.\n    Drunkard\u2019s dream.\n    Dear Irish boy.\n    Emmet\u2019s \u201cMountain Song.\u201d\n    Father Tom O\u2019Neil.\n    Granite mill fire.\n    Grant\u2019s trip around the world.\n    Grave of Wolf Tone--_Recitation_.\n    Gwine to cross the river by-and-by.\n    Garden where the praties grow.\n    Hang up your hat behind the door.\n    Hard times, come again no more.\n    I can\u2019t make it out, can you?\n    I\u2019ve a baby in Kalamazoo.\n    I don\u2019t like a cur at my heels.\n    In de lowlands, low.\n    Irish fair.\n    Joe Bowers.\n    Keep in de middle ob de road.\n    Kitty Tyrrel.\n    Little brown cot on the hill.\n    Little old house on the Rhine.\n    Let Erin remember the days of old.\n    Lost Rosabel.\n    Little flower you gave me.\n    Love\u2019s chidings.\n    Mary Ann, I\u2019ll tell your ma.\n    Moonlight at Killarney.\n    Mother would comfort me.\n    Mulligan\u2019s funeral.\n    My pretty Jane.\n    Mary Ann McLaughlin.\n    Mary\u2019s gone wid a coon.\n    Mr. and Mrs. Malone.\n    Norah, the pride of Kildare.\n    No one to love.\n    Oh! Fred, tell them to stop.\n    Our Army and Navy of blue.\n    Over the garden wall.\n    Old fashioned church on the hill.\n    Old fashioned homestead.\n    On the strict Q. T.\n    Oh! breathe not his name.\n    Old brown pants.\n    Old mountain tree.\n    Our grandfather\u2019s days.\n    O\u2019Reilly\u2019s billy goat--_Recitation_.\n    Pallet of straw.\n    Patrick, mind the baby.\n    Patter of der shingles--_Recitation_.\n    Sadie darling.\n    Sarah\u2019s young man.\n    Shamus O\u2019Brien--_Recitation_.\n    Spring, gentle spring.\n    Same thing over again.\n    Schneider\u2019s ride--_Recitation_.\n    She is far from the land.\n    Temple of fame.\n    There is a fine ship on the ocean.\n    Tramp--_Recitation_.\n    True Irish gents.\n    Turnpike gate.\n    Twickenham ferry.\n    Twinkle, twinkle, little star.\n    Tam O\u2019Shanter hat.\n    True as steel.\n    Tar\u2019s farewell.\n    Torpedo and the whale.\n    Tramp! tramp! tramp! the boys are marching.\n    Up at Jones\u2019 wood.\n    When these old clothes were new.\n    Wist! Wist! Wist!\n    White cockade.\n    Way down upon the Suwanee ribber.\n    Wife\u2019s dream.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 2.\n\nCONTAINING 95 SONGS.\n\n\n    Angel Gabriel.\n    Annie Lisle.\n    A rolling stone gathers no moss.\n    Annie of the vale.\n    A leaf of ivy from mother\u2019s grave.\n    A lock of mother\u2019s hair.\n    An Irishman\u2019s letter--_Comic Reading_.\n    Barney McCoy.\n    Believe me in all those endearing young charms.\n    Boys of Kilkenny.\n    Boston burglar.\n    Boston fire.\n    Belle Brandon.\n    Big sun flower.\n    Billy Grimes, the rover.\n    Bold Jack Donohue.\n    Cod liver oil.\n    Captain Jinks, of the horse marines.\n    Close the shutters, Willie\u2019s dead.\n    Casey\u2019s whiskey.\n    Death of President Garfield.\n    Drifting with the tide.\n    Dying soldier--_Recitation_.\n    Don\u2019t call in the morning.\n    Dreamy eyes haunt me still.\n    Don\u2019t get weary, children.\n    Eileen, sweet Eileen.\n    Empty is the stable, Davy\u2019s gone.\n    Evening star.\n    Flags of all nations.\n    Farmer\u2019s boy.\n    Fisherman and his child.\n    Flying trapeze.\n    Gentle heart be true.\n    German fifth.\n    Good-bye, Susan Jane.\n    Good-bye, Charley.\n    Give bread to the poor.\n    God save our president from every harm.\n    Huckleberry picnic.\n    Hungry man from Harlem.\n    It\u2019s naughty, but it\u2019s nice.\n    I hope I don\u2019t intrude.\n    I love my love in de morning.\n    I\u2019ll bet you a dollar you don\u2019t.\n    I\u2019m a man you don\u2019t meet every day.\n    In de evening by de moonlight.\n    I will be true to thee.\n    I\u2019d offer thee this hand of mine.\n    I\u2019m the governor\u2019s only son.\n    I\u2019ve got a donkey.\n    In the days when I was hard up.\n    It don\u2019t belong to me.\n    I\u2019d choose to be a baby.\n    I long to be single again.\n    I wandered by the brookside.\n    John Brown\u2019s song; or, glory, glory, hallelujah.\n    John Mitchel.\n    Johnny is gone for a soldier.\n    Just landed.\n    Jim Bludso--_Recitation_.\n    Kitty Clyde.\n    Leave not your Kathleen.\n    Lecture on \u201cDemperance.\u201d\n    Love! love! love!\n    Let the dead and the beautiful rest.\n    Last night I was dreaming of you.\n    Mid-watch.\n    Muldoon, the solid man.\n    McKenna's dream.\n    Minnie, hear the bluebird sing.\n    My sweetheart, when a boy.\n    Never empty cradle, twins are born.\n    Not before pa, dear.\n    Old zip coon.\n    Old plantation\u2019s lonely.\n    Paul Revere\u2019s ride--_Recitation_.\n    She\u2019s a gal o\u2019 mine.\n    Squire and Maria.\n    Sunny days will come again.\n    Sailing on the lake.\n    Sheridan\u2019s ride--_Recitation_.\n    Strawberries and cream.\n    That\u2019s how you get served when you\u2019re old.\n    Things I don\u2019t like to see.\n    Tiddle-a-wink, the barber.\n    True to the core.\n    Toss the Turk.\n    True lover\u2019s discussion.\n    Under the window she\u2019s sleeping.\n    Violets dipped in dew.\n    Why did they dig ma\u2019s grave so deep?\n    We are coming, sister Mary.\n    Yankee doodle.\n    Your lassie will be true.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 3.\n\nCONTAINING 97 SONGS.\n\n\n    A hundred years to come.\n    Atheist and acorn--_Recitation_.\n    Annie o\u2019 the banks o\u2019 Dee.\n    A man\u2019s a man for a\u2019 that.\n    A motto for every man.\n    Beautiful dreamer.\n    Beautiful Venice.\n    Blue and the gray.\n    Baby\u2019s got a cramp.\n    Bay of Biscay, O!\n    Boys, keep away from the gals.\n    Bread and cheese and kisses.\n    Bright emerald isle of the sea.\n    Buck Fanshaw\u2019s funeral.\n    Captain with his whiskers.\n    Clarabel Magee.\n    College days.\n    Come and kiss me.\n    Digging for gold.\n    Don\u2019t slam the gate.\n    Duffy\u2019s opening night.\n    Dan Maloney is the man.\n    Dying Californian.\n    Days of \u201949.\n    Down by the river side.\n    Dree dousand miles avay.\n    Ellen Bayne.\n    Fearfully and wonderfully made.\n    Flow gently, sweet Afton.\n    Farmer sat in his easy chair.\n    Gentle Annie.\n    Guilty or not guilty?--_Recitation_.\n    Goat, The.\n    Gum tree canoe.\n    Hazel dell.\n    I\u2019ll hang my harp on a willow tree.\n    Is it anybody\u2019s business?\n    Irishman\u2019s shanty.\n    It\u2019s funny when you feel that way.\n    Indian hunter.\n    Indian warrior\u2019s grave.\n    Ingleside.\n    Irish jaunting car.\n    John Anderson, my Jo, John.\n    Johnny Sands.\n    Katy\u2019s letter.\n    Kiss me quick and go.\n    Kate Kearney.\n    Little old duddeen.\n    Little Yawcob Strauss--_Recitation_.\n    Little more cider.\n    Miss Gruber\u2019s boarding house.\n    Maggie by my side.\n    Merriest girl that\u2019s out.\n    Mike Brady\u2019s shirt.\n    Mistletoe bough.\n    Meet me at the lane.\n    Mulligan guard.\n    Nettie Moore.\n    Nicodemus Johnson.\n    Nancy Till.\n    O\u2019Donnel Abu.\n    Old arm chair.\n    Our front stoop.\n    Pat Malloy.\n    Patriots of Ireland.\n    Pat Maloney\u2019s family.\n    Pretty Jemima, don\u2019t say no.\n    Pull down your vest.\n    Perhaps she\u2019s on the railway.\n    Pirate\u2019s serenade.\n    Polish boy--_Recitation_.\n    Paddy Blake\u2019s echo.\n    Rose of Allandale.\n    Row of tenement houses.\n    Ring, ring de banjo.\n    Regular army, O!\n    Rory O\u2019More.\n    Spade.\n    Stump speech.\n    Shelling green peas.\n    Skin-tight pants.\n    Tipperary christening.\n    They\u2019ve all got a wife but me.\n    Three black crows.\n    Twinkling stars.\n    Tapping at the garden gate.\n    Thou art gone from my gaze.\n    Valley lay smiling before me.\n    Walking down Broadway.\n    Why should the spirit of mortal be proud--_Recitation_.\n    Wait till the clouds roll by.\n    When the band begins to play.\n    What is home without a mother?\n    Who will care for mother now?\n    Widow Malone.\n    Wrongs of ould Ireland.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 4.\n\nCONTAINING 99 SONGS.\n\n\n    An Irishman\u2019s toast.\n    Apple of my eye.\n    Arthur and Martha.\n    Asleep at the switch--_Recitation_.\n    A knot of blue and gray.\n    Always gay and free, boys.\n    Bear it like a man.\n    Bootblack--_Recitation_.\n    Brother\u2019s fainting at the door.\n    Beautiful snow.\n    Carry the news to Mary.\n    Coney Island, down der bay.\n    Committed to the deep.\n    Champagne Charlie.\n    Dearest Mae.\n    Douglas! tender and true.\n    Deal with me kindly.\n    Don\u2019t say I told you.\n    Down the hill.\n    Deer Island, down the bay.\n    Fat Mickey.\n    Feel for the eyes that are weeping.\n    Five o\u2019clock in the morning.\n    Get a little table.\n    Get thee gone, girl.\n    Get away from dat window.\n    Human harp.\n    Hark! I hear an angel sing.\n    Hildebrand Montrose.\n    I\u2019ll wait till the clouds roll by.\n    I had but fifty cents.\n    \u2019Twas not my father.\n    In the starlight.\n    Ivy cabin in the lane.\n    John Armstrong.\n    Johnny Dougherty, the tailor.\n    Just over.\n    Jim, the carter lad.\n    Lackawanna spooners.\n    Light of other days.\n    Limerick races.\n    Little back parlor at home.\n    Little Maggie Ann.\n    McCarthy\u2019s mare.\n    Mother\u2019s fool--_Recitation_.\n    Mulcahey\u2019s gone away.\n    Man who struck my wife.\n    My dear little friend, Louise.\n    Miller\u2019s daughter.\n    My poor dog Tray.\n    My pretty Irish queen.\n    Mother, he\u2019s going away.\n    No Irish wanted here.\n    Near the banks of that lone river.\n    Nelly was a lady.\n    New York society.\n    Oh! take me to thy heart again.\n    Old Grimes\u2019 cellar door.\n    Old rustic bridge by the mill.\n    Old Dan Tucker.\n    Ophelia Murphy\u2019s birthmark.\n    O! \u2019tis nice to have a dummy.\n    Old Grimes is dead.\n    Parted.\n    Pennsylvania tramp.\n    Portrait that hangs on the wall.\n    Peek-a-boo.\n    Pretty Peggy.\n    Robin Adair.\n    Run for the doctor.\n    Swim out for glory.\n    Scenes that are brightest.\n    Since Cordelia first wore bangs.\n    Since Terry first joined the gang.\n    Silver slippers.\n    Steam arm.\n    Sweet-scented handsome young man.\n    Shan Van Voght.\n    Same old game.\n    Ten little niggers.\n    To the west.\n    Tassels on the boots.\n    There\u2019s a light in the window for thee.\n    Things that I\u2019d like to see.\n    Vagabond.\n    Villain still pursued her.\n    Waterford boys.\n    When Johnny comes marching home.\n    When the Brooklyn bridge is done.\n    When the pigs begin to fly.\n    Widow Machree.\n    Wreck of the \u201cLondon.\u201d\n    Where the ivy grows so green.\n    When this cruel war is over.\n    White squall.\n    Wouldn\u2019t you like to know.\n    Water cresses.\n    What the old cock sparrow said.\n    Whistling thief.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 5.\n\nCONTAINING 101 SONGS.\n\n\n    \u00c6sthetic Mick.\n    After the opera\u2019s over.\n    A hundred fathoms deep.\n    A wet sheet and a flowing sea.\n    Ain\u2019t you awful.\n    All among the hay.\n    Big aquarium.\n    Brannigan\u2019s pup.\n    Babylon is fallen.\n    Bell goes a ringing for Sarah.\n    Biddy Doyle.\n    Brannigan\u2019s band.\n    Battle of Fontenoy.\n    Bowery grenadiers.\n    Beautiful bells.\n    Best little wife in the world.\n    Bridget Donohue.\n    Bugaboo.\n    Come back to your Irish home.\n    Cobbler\u2019s daughter.\n    Colleen Dhas Machree.\n    Drummer--_Recitation_.\n    Death of Nelson.\n    Dot funny leetle baby--_Recitation_.\n    Dude, The--_Recitation_.\n    Fast freight--_Recitation_.\n    Fine old English gentleman.\n    Finest police in the world.\n    Flirtation O\u2019Toole.\n    Female barber shop.\n    General Grant\u2019s trip around the world.\n    Gilhooley, your coat is half-mast.\n    Good-bye, John.\n    Gobble song.\n    Gold, gold, gold.\n    Great man that Ireland has seen.\n    Good-bye, my lover, good-bye.\n    Hang up the baby\u2019s stocking.\n    I\u2019ll tell nobody.\n    I\u2019m proud I\u2019m an Irishman born.\n    I must be there on New Year\u2019s day--_Rec._\n    It\u2019s a cold day when I get left.\n    I\u2019ll meet her when the sun goes down.\n    I\u2019ll take you home again, Kathleen.\n    I\u2019m proud I\u2019m an Irishman\u2019s son.\n    I was despised because I was poor.\n    Jumbo.\n    Johnny Morgan.\n    Just down the lane.\n    Jenny who lives in the dell.\n    Jessie, the flower of Dumblane.\n    Kerry dance.\n    Lorena.\n    Lancashire lass.\n    Lovely land of dreams.\n    Life is but a game of cards--_Recitation_.\n    Maud Muller (in Dutch)--_Recitation_.\n    Montgomery guard--_Recitation_.\n    Man who taught her to dance.\n    Mattie dear.\n    Mott Street, 499.\n    My love Nell.\n    My love she is a fairy queen.\n    Moonlight walk.\n    Nobody knows the trouble I see.\n    Nobody knows what a racket was there.\n    New York Police Gazette.\n    Norine Maureen.\n    No Irish need apply.\n    Only a pin--_Recitation_.\n    Only to see thee, darling.\n    Oh! you little darling, I love you.\n    One more ribber for to cross.\n    Over the neighbor\u2019s fence.\n    Old pine tree.\n    Pool.\n    Poor Irish minstrel.\n    Romance of a hammock--_Recitation_.\n    Rock the cradle, John.\n    Ship that brought me over.\n    Stuck on our shape.\n    Some one to love.\n    Speak, oh speak to me again.\n    Tail iv me coat.\n    They\u2019re all getting married but me.\n    Tom Bowling.\n    Tommy, make room for your auntie.\n    This little plain gold ring.\n    Touch the elbow.\n    Up in a balloon.\n    Up in a mulberry tree.\n    We never speak as we pass by.\n    Wolf at the door--_Recitation_.\n    Waterfall, The.\n    We may be happy yet.\n    Which shall it be?--_Recitation_.\n    What will you do, love?\n    When the robins nest again.\n    You never miss the lager till the keg runs dry.\n    Yellow meal.\n    Yellow-haired Nellie--_Recitation_.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 6.\n\nCONTAINING 96 SONGS.\n\n\n    A lean banana.\n    Ah, there my size, I\u2019ll mash you.\n    \u00c6sthetic dude, The.\n    Angels meet me on the cross-road.\n    A smile was all she gave me.\n    Art of making love, The.\n    A boy\u2019s best friend is his mother.\n    Be quiet, or I\u2019ll scream.\n    Burial of Sir John Moore.\n    Bye, bye, Baby; bye, bye.\n    Baby and I.\n    Baby\u2019s lullaby.\n    Billy\u2019s dream.\n    Bitter beer.\n    Black Hills, The.\n    Call me back again.\n    Convict\u2019s dream--_Recitation_.\n    Call me your darling again.\n    Curfew must not ring to-night--_Rec._\n    Chinese song.\n    Darling Clo\u2019.\n    Dandy dude, The.\n    Down the river.\n    Fontenoy.\n    Father will settle the bill.\n    Fountain in the Park.\n    Fond memories of home.\n    Gaily the troubador.\n    Good-bye, Biddy dear.\n    Greenpoint Nell.\n    Gambler\u2019s wife--_Recitation_.\n    Hash.\n    Hurrah for old Ireland.\n    Hoolahan musketeers.\n    Hush-a-bye, baby.\n    Hoops.\n    I\u2019ll await my love.\n    Ivy green.\n    I\u2019m a man that\u2019s done wrong to my parents.\n    Juice of the forbidden fruit.\n    Jeanette and Jeannot.\n    Just to please the boys.\n    Jakey Woolfenstein.\n    Johnny Schmoker.\n    Kind relations.\n    Lover\u2019s telegraph.\n    Last farewell.\n    Lilly Dale.\n    Lord delivered Daniel.\n    Love song.\n    Mary Ann, go get the growler.\n    Mill\u2019s shut down to-day.\n    Mr. John Malone.\n    Mulcahey\u2019s sooner dog--_Recitation_.\n    Mahoney\u2019s fenian cat--_Recitation_.\n    Maniac--_Recitation_.\n    Man that stole the country.\n    March of the Cameron men.\n    Moneyless man.\n    Marble arch.\n    Mother keeps the gate locked now.\n    Nineteen hundred and one.\n    Not for Joseph.\n    Newhall House fire.\n    Only a dear little flower.\n    Oh, Mr. Flannigan.\n    Old church bell.\n    Over the mountain.\n    Old plaid shawl.\n    Old village blacksmith\u2019s shop.\n    Our Jack\u2019s come home to-day.\n    Oh! boys, carry me \u2019long.\n    People will talk.\n    Plumber--_Recitation_.\n    Poor little soldier\u2019s boy.\n    Pat of Mullingar.\n    Perverted proverbs.\n    Patrolman Mulcahey and Flynn.\n    Price of a drink--_Recitation_.\n    Raven--_Recitation_.\n    Sailing.\n    Somebody\u2019s darling--_Recitation_.\n    Springtime and robins have come.\n    Tommy Dodd.\n    Taffy was a Welshman.\n    Ting, ting, that\u2019s how the bell goes.\n    Timid awkward squad.\n    To my wife.\n    What I would do for her--_Recitation_.\n    We reap what we sow--_Recitation_.\n    What I live for--_Recitation_.\n    Whiskey, you\u2019re the divil.\n    Wreck of the \u201cAtlantic.\u201d\n    When the leaves begin to fall.\n    Ye merry birds.\n    Young recruit.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 7.\n\nCONTAINING 94 SONGS.\n\n\n    Animals\u2019 fair.\n    A dollar and sixty a day.\n    A Yankee man of war.\n    An agricultural Irish girl.\n    A roller-rink romance--_Recitation_.\n    As I read the paper through.\n    Burke\u2019s dream.\n    Banks o\u2019 Doon.\n    Bed-bug--_Recitation_.\n    Betty and the baby.\n    Barney, take me home again.\n    Boy with the auburn hair.\n    Beans.\n    Candidate for alderman.\n    Cats in our back-yard.\n    Climbing up the golden stairs.\n    Colored band.\n    Call her back and kiss her.\n    Casey\u2019s awful grub.\n    Coal oil Tommy.\n    Don\u2019t leave your mother, Tom.\n    Drummer boy of Waterloo.\n    Dream faces.\n    Duffy, the swell.\n    Don\u2019t you cry so, Norah darling.\n    Erin-go-bragh.\n    Fashionable Fred.\n    Far, far, away.\n    Fine old Irish gentleman.\n    Female smuggler.\n    Free and easy.\n    Good ship Cumberland.\n    Good-bye, \u2019Liza Jane.\n    Gipsy Davy.\n    Gal with the Gainsborough hat.\n    Hush, little baby, don\u2019t you cry.\n    Here she goes and there she goes.\n    House carpenter.\n    Hornet\u2019s nest--_Recitation_.\n    I\u2019ll ask my mother and I\u2019ll let you know next Sunday afternoon.\n    Irish Wife--_Recitation_.\n    I\u2019m in jail, my love.\n    Jockey hat and feather.\n    Jolly Jack, the rover.\n    Keiser, der yer vant to buy a dog?\n    Kitty of Coleraine.\n    Knock at the window to-night, love.\n    Leave not your Kathleen.\n    Little brown church.\n    Lord Bateman and the fair Sophia.\n    Lay my head beneath a rose.\n    Little fraud.\n    Lost Charley Ross.\n    Meet me darling Kate, by the cottage gate.\n    My trundle bed.\n    Masonic song.\n    McSorley\u2019s twins.\n    My wife is so awfully thin.\n    Mother, is the battle over?\n    Not much.\n    Nelly Bly.\n    Old bog hole.\n    Oh! Nicodemus.\n    Old familiar faces.\n    Oft in the stilly night.\n    Old turnkey.\n    Old gray mare.\n    Old Simon, the hot-corn man.\n    Popsy wopsy.\n    Please don\u2019t sell father any more rum.\n    Peck\u2019s bad boy--PART I.\n    Peck\u2019s bad boy--PART II.\n    Pills.\n    Railway guard.\n    Rover\u2019s grave.\n    Riding on the elevated railroad.\n    Shanty boy\u2019s song.\n    She was as handsome as a rose.\n    Saint Patrick was a gentleman.\n    Shamrock shore.\n    See-saw.\n    Star of Glengary.\n    That young man across the way.\n    That sweet-scented handsome young man.\n    Up at Dudley Grove.\n    Up in a back room.\n    Up-stairs, in my bed-room.\n    Venita.\n    Watchman.\n    Willie\u2019s on the dark blue sea.\n    Wind blew through his whiskers.\n    Would I were a boy again.\n    Windy man from Brooklyn.\n    Written in letters of gold.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n               P. O. Box 1823. =50 Chatham St., New York.=\n\n\n\n\nWehman\u2019s Collection of Songs, No. 8.\n\nContaining 104 Songs.\n\n\n    A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew.\n    An Irishman\u2019s dying request--_Rec._\n    Bonaparte on Saint Helena.\n    Bring back the old folks, Willie darling.\n    Bonny Irish boy, The.\n    Bright Alfarata.\n    Banbury Cross.\n    Baby on the brain.\n    Belleville Convent fire, The.\n    Banks of Newfoundland, The.\n    Charley, he\u2019s a masher.\n    Carrie, dear.\n    Come back to the old home again.\n    Comet of the West, The.\n    Conductor with the patent bell punch.\n    Clam soup pedler\u2019s daughter, The.\n    Dan and Teddie\u2019s parting.\n    Dear little Colleen.\n    Donevans, The.\n    Daschen on the Rhine--_Recitation_.\n    Down by the rustic gate.\n    Ehren on the Rhine.\n    Eggs for your breakfast in the morning.\n    Electric light, The.\n    Eddie McCarty.\n    Fenians\u2019 escape, The.\n    Fifth Avenue.\n    Falling leaves.\n    Flew-y, Flew-y.\n    Gallant Sixty-ninth, The.\n    George Constantine McKeown.\n    Give me back my heart again.\n    Green fields of America, The.\n    Her lovers--_Recitation_.\n    How we tried to whip the teacher--_Rec._\n    Hebrew wedding, The.\n    I dreamed that old Ireland was free.\n    In the shadow of the leaves.\n    I\u2019ll go back to the old bridge again.\n    If I was the President.\n    I will stand by my friend.\n    I\u2019ll name the boy Dennis or no name at all.\n    Isle of France, The.\n    In the Louisiana Lowlands.\n    Jordan is a hard road to travel.\n    Johnny, fill up the bowl--No. 1.\n    Johnny, fill up the bowl--No. 2.\n    Johnny Doyle.\n    Jeremiah, blow the fire.\n    Jack is every inch a sailor.\n    Let me dream again.\n    Lady, art thou sleeping?\n    Let us speak of a man as we find him.\n    Lily of the West, The.\n    Married life.\n    Musical wife, The.\n    My rattling mare and I.\n    McCarthy\u2019s boarding house.\n    Mother\u2019s last letter to me.\n    My bonny laboring boy.\n    Maryland, my Maryland.\n    Mary Blane.\n    \u2019Neath the maple by the mill.\n    Napolitaine.\n    Nobody\u2019s mule--_Recitation_.\n    Other side of Jordan, The.\n    Oh! I shall call dada.\n    Orphan boy, The--_Recitation_.\n    Orphan girl, The.\n    Old Mousquetaire, The.\n    Once again.\n    Oh, Fred! the boat is turning over.\n    Our sailors on the sea.\n    Poor old Jesse\u2019s blind.\n    Poor married man, The.\n    Pretty little Mary.\n    Paddy\u2019s curiosity shop.\n    Paddy on the canal.\n    Sally Mackenally.\n    Shamrock, rose and thistle, The.\n    Song from \u201cNanon.\u201d\n    Something to tickle the girls.\n    Sparking Sarah Jane.\n    Silver bells of memory.\n    Sweet Alpine roses.\n    Shoot the hat.\n    Sweet dreams of mother and home.\n    Swinging on the golden gate.\n    There\u2019s a light in the window.\n    Tommy, make room for your uncle.\n    Ten little injuns.\n    Three grains of corn.\n    Ten minutes too late.\n    Umbrella courtship.\n    When we meet by the old bridge again.\n    When the circus comes to town.\n    What is life?--_Recitation_.\n    Wax-work show, The.\n    Woman is what man doth make her--_Rec._\n    When we went roller skating.\n    You\u2019ll miss your mother when she\u2019s gone.\n    Yes, we all will be there.\n    Yaller gal that winked at me, The.\n    Yarn of the \u201cNancy Bell,\u201d The.\n\nPrice 10 Cents.\n\nFor sale by all Booksellers and Newsdealers in the United States and\nCanada, or will be sent post-paid to any address on receipt of price.\nAddress\n\n                        H. 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There are in this book valuable hints about =Love, Courtship and\nMarriage=, showing in what style lovers should indite epistles.\n\nThere are given all the various letters that arise in the course of\nbusiness: Asking for money, requesting time, enclosing remittance, asking\nassistance, reasons for refusal, from tenants to landlords on different\nsubjects, with landlords\u2019 replies. Then--=and this is a very important\nfeature=--there is shown the legal importance of a letter; and\nexplanations are given upon the exact meaning of expressions used in\nwriting, that may be brought into court in litigations. It also contains\nthe =art of abbreviating writing=, so that any one can, with practice,\nwrite with the rapidity of the shorthand writer. In fact, =the following\npersons all require this book=:\n\n    YOUNG LADIES AND YOUNG GENTLEMEN.\n    WIVES AND HUSBANDS.\n    WIDOWS AND BACHELORS.\n    FARMERS AND TRADERS.\n    THE SICK AND THE WELL.\n    SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.\n    MOTHERS AND FATHERS.\n    DAUGHTERS AND SONS.\n    GIVERS AND RECEIVERS OF PRESENTS.\n    THE EDUCATED AND THE ILLITERATE.\n\nBut it would take page after page to begin to enumerate all the different\nclasses to whom \u201c=The Complete Letter Writer=\u201d would prove an invaluable\ncompanion. There is nothing worth knowing in any other letter writer not\nto be found here, while there are many things of importance here not to be\nfound in any other book. Notwithstanding all these good points it is only\n=Twenty-five Cents a copy=, and is sent at that price, postage paid, to\nany part of the United States or Canada. Address\n\n                       HENRY J. WEHMAN, Publisher,\n                           50 CHATHAM STREET,\n                       P. O. Box 1823. =NEW YORK.=","title":"The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller: Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":58705}