Misfortune, death or horrible news. 29.

…Dreaming of a severed arm, either if it’s your own or not, indicates divorce (if you’re married) or the breaking of a relationship or commitments (if there are plans to get married), which usually happens as a result of intrigues by those surrounding the couple. Dreaming of arms that stretch towards the dreamer, indicates honest friends and getting of protection. When those arms appear sick, malnourished or skinny, indicates poor health conditions for the dreamer. Dreaming of one or more healthy, strong and agile arms indicates that you are receiving at least moral aid. Dreaming of weak and immobile arms reveals that the dreamer is in a state of mental and physical restlessness due to uncertainty and doubts that don’t allow him to make decisions. Dreaming of one or more sick, wounded, bleeding or broken arms, hints that you will soon suffer from various problems, such as business failures,…

…not very well, I rushed upstairs, and, on opening the door, saw this man in the act of breaking open the sale. I shrieked out, and he rushed towards the window. I fired, aiming purposely at his arms, so as to merely disable him. Alarmed by the noise, the servants came rushing up from the kitchen, and I ran to telephone to the police station. On my return, the man was still in the grasp of my servants.””And your husband, ma’am?” the sergeant asked deferentially.”I haven’t been in to see yet,” the lady replied a trifle shamefacedly, as I thought. “Will you come with me, sergeant? I — I — am so nervous lest anything should have happened to him.””They entered the dressing-room together, and then — then as we all listened in breathless expectation, for I instinctively felt the sinister-eyed woman had planned some terrible drama, there was a…