…great success; whereas to dream of vultures portends failure and illness.Magpies, whether single or in numbers; mean death — if in flight, the death of some acquaintance or relative; if motionless, the death of the dreamer.To dream of hawks signifies the making of an enemy; to dream of owls implies the breaking of a friendship, the breaking off of an engagement, serious illness, accident, or death.Parrots in dreams are significant of impending scandal and gossip; pigeons are significant of presents of all kinds.Ravens portend grave misfortunes, and not infrequently the near presence of some phantasm; sparrows signify petty losses and quarrels; swallows portend grief — grief at someone’s illness, misfortunes or death— but grief, invariably grief.Storks in dreams mean an approaching birth; wrens an approaching engagement or marriage.The following are a few of the many accounts of bird-dreams upon which I have based my assumptions: “A lady writing to me…

…are no longer physical. The ZONE ARTO Society extracted your radio-activity from your material body, and the latter is now lying at the bottom of the Thames.””In other words, they murdered me! I said.””Yes, the whisper echoed, “If you prefer to use so harsh an expression, they murdered you!And they are now deliberating what physical body you shall next inhabit! Good-bye!”And with ”Good-bye” ringing in my ears. I awoke.In this dream (the following features have already been fulfilled): — Being borne through the air signifies falling in love; the bare mountains, change of occupation; the plains, state of tranquillity; slow-flowing rivers, happiness; rapid rivers, difficulties; cataracts, great troubles; pine trees, death, illness, or a journey abroad; flowers in general, the forming of friendship; beautiful maidens, thoughts of suicide; sunlight, success in love, legacies and presents; marble, death; black in streets; illness and death; grey in sky, trouble and danger from…

…Snake-dreams are unlucky, and signify injuries by enemies, scandal, unkind gossip, and falseness on the part of those who have hitherto posed as friends.From among the many snake-dreams I have heard and recollect, I select the following, as examples.A lady, who had formed a great friendship with a woman with a peculiar cast in her eyes (a disfigurement which, in my opinion, frequently points to deceit), once dreamed she was walking in her garden, when out of a rose glided an enormous green snake. Greatly alarmed, she was on the verge of running away to solicit help to kill the brute, when she saw, to her amazement, that it had human eyes, and, on bending down to examine it more closely, she found herself looking into the countenance of her woman friend. Hair, features and complexion were exactly similar, but the expression was different: it was an expression of…