Broken arms shows danger, great or long arms, friendship; but small ones, enemies, who will your prosperity strip.
Dream dictionary: Broken arms dream meanings
…To have one cut, announcement of the quick illness of a relative or dear friend, if for a male the right arm is injured and for female if the left one is injured. The two arms cut, imprisonment or sickness. The arm that is broken or emaciated, for a single person indicates sickness, distress, family affliction. For a man broken arm denotes to public distress, such as defeat of colleagues, famine or epidemical illness. For a married woman broken arm indicates separation, divorce, widowhood. Arms dirty that are dirty represents distress. Arms inflated or swollen symbolizes riches for brothers or very affectionate relatives. Arms that are stout and strong signifies happiness, cure, and deliverance. Healthy arms favors will be received. Harder and more robust arms than ordinary person has means joy, profit, and unexpected wealth from a son or brother. If the dreamer is a woman, increase in the…
To dream that you have the right arm cut off, is significant of the death of a female relative; if both arms are cut off, captivity and sickness; an arm broken, or withered, sorrows, losses, and widowhood; an arm swollen, sudden fortune falling to a dear friend; to dream that you have strong arms, signifies health and happiness; dirty arms, misery; hairy arms, an increase of fortune and family.
…glitter proceeding from the innermost recesses of the skull. The face was fleshless and the skin, which was white and luminous, hung closely to the bones, which in places had broken completely through it. It was the face of the long since dead animated by the spirit of a devil, and I doubt if even the Hell of Dante could show such another. Familiar as I was with the sight of ghastly phantasms of all kinds, I had never seen one that impressed me with quite such a terror as this, and, as it glided slowly towards me with out-stretched arms, I verily believe my heart would have burst asunder and I should have died in my sleep, had not the spell that held me limb-tied been suddenly broken. With wild shrieks of despair I fled away, and from behind every bush and tree darted, similarly apparelled, huntsmen in close…