Part 37

MERRY.--(Being) A presage of sadness and gloom.

MESSAGE.--(Receiving one) An advance in life.

MIDWIFE.--An increase in the family.

MILK.--A sign of peaceful circumstances; often means an increase in family: (spilling) loss in business.

MINCE PIES.--(Making) Good luck, a valuable present; (eating) good news.

MINT.--An improvement in health.

MIRROR.--(Married folk dreaming) Children: (young people) sweethearts: (seeing own face) failure of cherished project.

NEEDLE.--Love or family quarrels: (unable to thread needle) baseless suspicions causing trouble.

NEGRO.--Unlucky: a warning of trouble.

NEST.--A good omen: fortunate love: happy family life.

NETTLES.--(Stung by them) Sign that the dreamer will make a bold effort to reach a desired end or gain a desired object; for young people to dream thus is a sign that they are in love and wishful to enter the unknown and, possibly, unhappy state of matrimony.

NEWSPAPERS.--(Reading them) A presage of news from a foreign country.

NIGHT.--To dream of night presages sadness and gloom.

NIGHTINGALE.--(Hearing nightingales sing) Joyfulness, success in business, good crops, a happy marriage to a good and faithful mate: (for a married woman to dream) she will have children who will become great singers.

NIGHTMARE.--To dream of having a nightmare is a sign that the dreamer will be immediately married, and (if a man) his wife will turn out a shrew.

NINE.--To see objects or persons to the number of nine intensifies or multiplies the effect, nine being the superlative of superlatives.

NOISE.--Hearing loud, discordant noises, particularly if their source is not apparent, is a bad omen.

PEARLS.--Weeping and tears, hard times, worry, and treason.

PEARS.--(Gathering them) Pleasant companionship and enjoyment: (eating them) sickness and possibly death.

PEAS.--(Seeing them growing) Fortunate enterprises: (cooked) good and speedy success and enjoyment of well-gained riches.

PEBBLES.--Sorrows and troubles: (young woman dreams) she will be made unhappy by attractive rivals.

PEDDLER.--Beware of false friends.

PEN.--Avoid a friend whose example and advice are bad.

PERFUME.--An augury of success and happiness.

PERSPIRATION.--To dream of being bathed in perspiration foretells the inception of some arduous task which will be successfully achieved.

PETTICOAT.--A bad dream portending troubles caused by frivolity, to a man: and to a woman vexations through vanity and pride.

PIANO.--(Playing or seeing another play) The death of relations, funeral obsequies.

PIG.--Good luck, reasonable success in affairs.