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Cage in a dream: meaning in al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it is a prison, and it may indicate the cradle of an infant.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 275

The cage is a house. So whoever sees that he has bought a hen and a cage, then he will buy a slave girl and settle her in a house.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 275

And whoever sees that he has put his head into a cage while walking through the markets, then he will sell his house and witnesses will testify against him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 275

The cage indicates the entanglement of affairs and their becoming intertwined with one another, and the cage indicates marriage.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 275

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the cage, there is no good in seeing it, because it is interpreted as constriction, imprisonment, worry and grief.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 238–239

Abu Sa'id al-Wa'iz said: the large cage in which chickens are confined indicates a house. So whoever sees as though he bought a cage of this description and penned a hen in it, then he will buy a house and move his wife into it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 238–239

And whoever sees that he placed the cage on his head and went around the market with it, then he will sell his house and the witnesses will bear witness to it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 238–239

Ja'far al-Sadiq said: the cage is interpreted in three ways: imprisonment, a narrow strait, and a house of copper. And if there is a bird in the cage, then it indicates the bad condition of the person whom that bird indicates.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 238–239

Kinds and conditions of Cage

cage-maker

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

Seeing him in a dream indicates the builder and the tailor, and indicates marriage and offspring.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 280

And perhaps he indicates the disciplinarian teacher, or the jailer, or the weaver.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 280

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