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IF YOU PREFER SUNRISES TO SUNSETS, YOU ARE A DREAMER.

Where learned: ALABAMA ; AUBURN

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Dreams
BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon

Date learned: 07-27-1968

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IF YOU DREAM ABOUT BEING KILLED AND YOU KNOW YOU ARE ABOUT
TO BE KILLED IN THE DREAM YOU WILL DIE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FAYETTEVILLE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 07-06-1970

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IT IS BAD LUCK TO TELL A DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST. MY FAMILY ALL
QUOTED THIS BELIEF WHEN EVER ANYONE WOULD START TO TELL A
DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST. AFTER EATING IT WAS OK. THIS BELIEF
APPLIED TO ALL DREAMS--IT WAS WRONG TO TELL BAD DREAMS BECAUSE
THEY MIGHT COME TRUE, BUT GOOD DREAMS COULD NOT BE TOLD
EITHER BECAUSE THE GOOD THINGS MIGHT BE CANCELLED OUT IF IT
WERE TOLD OUT LOUD. EVERYONE WOULD LAUGH WHEN SOMEONE
SAID "IT IS BAD LUCK" OR "DON'T TELL IT NOW, WAIT TILL YOU
EAT" BUT SOMEONE ALWAYS SAID IT TO STOP ANOTHER MEMBER
FROM TELLING THE DREAM. I STILL DO IT AS A MATTER OF
COURSE TO MY OWN FAMILY.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LEBANON

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams
BELIEF -- Bad luck Food and drink

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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IF YOU HAVE A BAD DREAM AND TALK ABOUT IT BEFORE BREAKFAST,
IT WILL COME TRUE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 05-08-1972

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PUT ST. JOHN'S WORK (WORT?) IN (A) PILLOW TO FORETELL ONE'S
FUTURE IN DREAMS.

Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN

Keyword(s): PLANT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Dreams
BELIEF -- Use of Object Plant

Date learned: 03-29-1969

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TO DREAM OF SNAKES MEANS YOU HAVE AN ENEMY.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; PEABODY COLLEGE LIBRARY

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Animal
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 04-04-1969

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A FRIDAY NIGHT DREAM TOLD BEFORE BREAKFAST ON SATURDAY WILL
COME TRUE.

Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 03-23-1969

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IF YOU DREAM OF FIRE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAD. IF YOU DREAM
OF A BIRTH, IT IS A SIGN OF DEATH.

Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Birth
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
BELIEF -- Dreams
BELIEF -- Dreams Foretelling a death

Date learned: 03-23-1969

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ONE'S DREAMS WILL COME TRUE IF THEY ARE TOLD BEFORE BREAKFAST
THE NEXT MORNING.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LAFAYETTE

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 04-29-1969

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JERKING IN BED WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING MEANS YOU ARE
DREAMING THAT YOU ARE FALLING.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; COLUMBIA

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Dreams
BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions

Date learned: 06-16-1972

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IF YOU SLEEP ON YOUR BACK, YOU WILL HAVE BAD DREAMS.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Spirit / Mind / Body
BELIEF -- Dreams

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IF A BAD DREAM IS TOLD BEFORE BREAKFAST, IT WILL COME TRUE.

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Where learned: NOT GIVEN

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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DON'T TELL A DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST OR IT WILL COME TRUE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 08-09-1968

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I HAD HEARD THIS WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER
WHERE OR WHEN.
NEVER TELL A DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST, OR IT WILL COME TRUE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 07-00-1968

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IF YOU TELL ABOUT A DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST, IT WILL COME TRUE.

Where learned: KENTUCKY, ASSUMED ; PADUCAH

Subject headings: Observation
Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 07-04-1972

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"IF GOD, IN ANCIENT TIMES, HAD SPOKEN TO MEN IN VISIONS OF THE
NIGHT, WHAT EASIER WAY COULD THERE BE FOR HIM TO CONVEY HIS
MEANING TO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES? SCIENCE, WHICH HAS SHATTERED
MANY AN IDOL AND DESTROYED MANY A DELUSION, HAS MADE BUT SLIGHT
INROADS UPON THE SHADOWY REALM OF DREAMS. FOR MIS' MOLLY, TO
WHOM SCIENCE WOULD HAVE MEANT NOTHING AND PSYCHOLOGY WOULD
HAVE BEEN A MEANINGLESS TERM, THE LAND OF DREAMS WAS CAREFULLY
MAPPED AND BOUNDED. EACH DREAM HAD SOME SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE,
OR WAS AT LEAST SUSCEPTIBLE OF CLASSIFICATION UNDER SOME
SIGNIFICANT HEAD. DREAMS, AS A GENERAL RULE, WENT BY
CONTRARIES; BUT A DREAM THREE TIMES REPEATED WAS A CERTAIN
PORTENT OF THE THING DEFINED."

Where learned: NEW YORK ; COLLIER BOOKS ; PAGE 84

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 00-00-1969

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IF YOU WANT TO DREAM AT NIGHT, EAT A HEAVY SUPPER.

Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA ; GEORGETOWN

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: NOT GIVEN

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IF YOU DREAM ABOUT A FLOOD OR BIG RAIN, YOU MAY BE VERY
HUNGRY SOON.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TENNESSEE RIDGE

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Food
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 08-09-1968

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IF YOU DREAM ABOUT A NUN, YOU'LL BE VERY SAD SOON.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TENNESSEE RIDGE

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 08-09-1968

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IF YOU DREAM ABOUT A GHOST, YOU'VE MET ONE.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TENNESSEE RIDGE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter
BELIEF -- Dreams

Date learned: 08-09-1968

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