Dream dictionary: Sovereign dream meanings

…Foxes figure so largely in folk-lore that one need not be surprised that fox-dreams, in the case of many people, are particularly significant. Silver foxes in dreams would appear to portend excessive good fortune; black foxes, excessive misfortune; ordinary foxes, good luck in a moderate degree.Among the fox-dreams that have been related to me was one dreamed by a Negro. ”I dreamed,” he said, ” I was starving to death in the streets of a big city, and had come to the decision that, sooner than go on in misery, I would terminate my existence in a deep, brown river that flowed sluggishly by me, when suddenly a white fox came bounding down the street, and, stopping in front of me; vomited sovereign after sovereign. With a wild shout of delight, I sprang forward, and, clutching hold of the gold, was filling my pockets with it when I awoke….

…To pick up money in dreams signifies impending petty troubles. How often have some, perhaps many, of us in our dreams seen a sovereign on the pavement, and, on greedily picking it up, seen another, and then others, until the whole street — like Whittington’s of yore — seemed paved with gold. And how bitterly disappointed, I venture to think, have most of us been on awakening, to find the golden harvest flown!The finding of a coffin in a dream portends a death, usually that of a child. To find bones presages illness or death….