…he stopped, and, with the perspiration trickling down his face, pointed to a bloody pile on the floor. ‘There they are,’ he said ‘ thirty-two of them! The toughest to draw imaginable. Now I shall stick them in again and fill them!’ He did so, and the torture was so great that over and over again I swooned. For twenty hours he whirled away first at one root and then at another, piercing the gums and pricking the nerves; and the more I implored him to stop the more he hurt me. At last he finished, the whirling instrument was laid aside, and with the tip of my bleeding tongue I felt, in each tooth, a hole big enough to hold an egg. “Do you see this? ‘ he said, holding up a bottle. Its Scotch whiskey, and I’m going to fill your teeth with it. You will then know…

…and then boarding her craft and rubbing their noses caressingly against her; and, a day or two later, she received a quite unexpected invitation to accompany a friend on a yachting voyage to the Baltic. And now for my own experience. The night before my husband presented me with a magnificent sealskin coat, when I all but collapsed with astonishment, I dreamed that a big black cat was sitting on a chest of drawers in my room, and that directly it saw me, it leaped into the middle of the room and sank through the floor.”A striking example of the cat-dream that is invariably, with some people, followed by misfortune, occurred to a lady I met in Llandudno. “Shortly before my father lost most of his money in a big bank smash,” she said, “I dreamed I saw a tortoiseshell cat on the mantelshelf. And again a day or two…

Dreaming of an empty tomb or well, announces that you are taking unnecessary risks in the things that you are planning or doing. Dreaming of falling into a grave or pit announces misfortunes. Dreaming of entering a grave, tomb, pit or hole in the floor means that you’re taking risks because you need to do it, even against your will. Dreaming of graves is always a bad sign since it announces bad luck and losses. Dreaming of a destroyed grave presages sorrows or diseases in your family. Reading the inscription of a grave means that you will have to do unpleasant tasks. If you visit a grave in a dream, then it means that an accident will happen soon, but it won’t be fatal. Dreaming of an acquaintance or a friend before a grave is an indication that this person may need us and we should help them.