This section is from the book "The Literature And Curiosities Of Dreams", by Frank Seafield. Also available from Amazon: The Literature And Curiosities Of Dreams.
To dream that we do good to any one, signifies jollity and pleasure; and to dream that others do us good, is profit and gain..
To dream of eating grapes at any time signifies cheerfulness and profit. To tread grapes signifies the overthrow of enemies. To gather white grapes signifies gain, but to dream of gathering black grapes signifies damage.
If a man dreams that he is put into a grave and buried, it presageth he will die in a mean condition; yet some believe (grounded on experience) that to dream that one is dead and buried signifieth he that hath such a dream shall recover an estate according to the quantity of earth that is laid upon him.
To dream of hail signifies sorrow and trouble, and sometimes that the most hidden secrets shall be revealed and made known. To dream of great and long-continued hail, attended with tempest and thunder, signifies afflictions, troubles, dangers, losses, and perils; though to the poorer sort such dreams signify repose, for during storms they are shut up and at rest.
If any one dreams that by sentence or judgment he was condemned to be hanged, and dreams also that the sentence was really executed, he will be dignified according to the height of the gibbet or tree whereon he was hanged. But if the dreamer be sick or afflicted, he will be freed from his disease, and in the end have joy and contentment. If any one dreams he condemned another to be hanged, that signifies he will be angry with him whom he imagined he condemned, but in a small time after he will place him in honour and dignity, which he will abuse. According to the interpretations of the Persians and the Egyptians, he that dreams he is hanged by sentence of law, will be rich, honoured, and respected. If any one dreams that he has eaten the flesh of a man hanged, he will be enriched by some person, but it will be by some foul practice and some secret crime. If any one dreams that, being about to be hanged, he was delivered, and came down to the bottom of the gibbet, that person will lose his estate and dignity.
To dream you see harpies, which are infernal creatures, half women and half serpents, or else furies, such as the poets feign them to be, signifies tribulation and pains occasioned by envious persons, and such as seek our ruin, shame, or death, by mischief and treachery.
If any one dreams he killed a hart, and that he had the head and skin, it signifies that he will inherit the estate of some old man, or that he will overcome fugitive, deceitful, timorous, and irresolute enemies. To see a hart running, shows great wealth got by subtlety.
To dream that your hat is broken, or fallen off, means damage and dishonour.
To dream of heaven, and that you ascend up thither, signifies grandeur and glory.
A dream that one sees hell as it is described, and that he hears the damned souls groan and complain through the extremity of their torments, is an advertisement that God sends to the dreamer to the end that he may throw himself upon God's mercy. If any one dreams he sees the damned plunged in the fire and flames of hell, and that they suffer great torture, it signifies sadness, repentance, and a melancholic distemper. To dream of descending into hell, and returning thence, to those that are great and rich signifies misfortune; but it is a good sign to the poor and weak.
 
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