Torches show funerals, to wipe on towels a bad fate.
Dream dictionary: Torches dream meanings
Explanation about obscure affairs. 9.
Hold them is a great sign, particularly for youth, in as much as love affairs and all undertakings will eventuate in accordance with desires. It will obtain victories over enemies and secure the esteem and benevolence of everybody. To see them in the hands of another, represents the discovery of an evil contemplated. If they are extinct, the sign is the reverse. (See Fire, Candles.)
…Dreaming of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement and favorable business. To carry a torch, denotes success in love making or intricate affairs. For one to go out, denotes failure and distress. See Lantern and Lamp….
…cleaning a lantern, flashlight, etc., suggests that soon you’ll conquer the success you’ve been awaiting, but only if you carefully review the way you work. If you dream that you’re buying a lantern or flashlight suggests that you’ll have a good business or improve those that already exist. When a young woman dreams that she’s illuminating the face of her lover with a flashlight, it suggests that she doubts that he is the right man for her. If the light turns off, it means that the relationship will break up. To dream about lamps, flashlights, torches, etc., announces a future success in the matters being handled by the dreamer. To dream that you’re holding a flashlight or torch in your hands and are lighting the floor where you are walking suggests that you’re looking for ways to improve yourself or at least to feel confortable in your ongoing activities….
Dreaming of lighting torches is a good sign for everything, especially if the dreamer is a young person. If the dreamer carries a torch, it means that he will be lucky in love life and in the business he starts, it also means triumphing over his enemies and, in general, everything going well in life. On the other hand, seeing a lit torch in somebody elses hand means that others will discover the evil things you have done, and that you will suffer from a well-deserved punishment, even if you try to avoid it. If the torch is off, it indicates the opposite.