Foot in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, 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 the adornment of a man's wealth, his steadfastness, his works of piety, and the support of his affairs.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

Its toes are the adornment of a man's daughters, his slave girls, and his young male servants.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

Its bones are his wealth upon which he relies and his livelihood.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

If he sees something of it ascending to the sky, he dies.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

Hair upon the feet is a debt that overwhelms him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

The two feet indicate his mount and his wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 286

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

As for the two feet, they are the adornment of a man's wealth and the deeds of his piety and his private affairs, and their toes are his slave-girls and his slave-boys. So whatever he sees in them of adornment or blemish is interpreted in that light.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 60

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

The foot is the adornment of a man and his wealth, and its toes are his slave-girls and his slave-boys.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

If he sees some of his toes ascending to the sky, some of his slave-boys or slave-girls will die.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

Hair upon the feet is an overwhelming debt.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

Whoever sees as though his two legs ascended to the sky and became separated from him, his two children will die.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

If he sees that he commits fornication with his leg, then he walks after women unlawfully.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

Whoever sees that he has many legs — it is said that for the rich man it is illness, because he needs many legs to act on his behalf; and it may indicate the loss of eyesight, so that they need someone to lead them; and for the wicked it indicates imprisonment, so that there are guards over them and they do not walk alone.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

Freud and Jung, a separate view

The foot occurs as an anthropomorphic attribute, and we have already met the theriomorphic attribute in the feathers and the sun phallus.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

(Here, as is plainly evident, foot is used in the phallic meaning.)

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

This meaning is attached to the foot as I here point out,

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

Kinds and conditions of Foot

human leg/foot

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

In a dream, the standing of a man is upon his two legs, and his uprightness is by them. So whatever he sees happening to them, its interpretation concerns his wealth or that by which he stands. The leg is his wealth, his movement in ease and hardship, his chief, and the one he relies upon.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 128–129

If he sees that his legs ascended to the sky and became separated from him, then his father will die.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 128–129

foot/leg own page

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

As for the two legs, they are the two parents, or one's camel, or that upon which a man stands in his place with respect to sustenance, or the riding beasts he mounts, or what he possesses of wealth, or a journey. So whatever he sees in them of adornment or defect, its interpretation applies to those things.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 60

Daniel said: Whoever sees that one of his legs has been cut off or broken, then it indicates the loss of half his wealth or the death of one of his parents.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 60

leg/foot own page

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

The leg is the support of a man, and his wealth and his livelihood upon which he relies.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

And sometimes the shin is the lifespan of its owner.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 174–177

leg and foot

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

Pain in the leg indicates abundance of wealth.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 208–211

The cutting of the arch of the foot indicates chronic disability.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 208–211

leg/foot injury

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

Whoever sees that his right leg has become ailing and broken or dislocated, and if there is a wound in it, then his son will fall ill.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 212–215

And if he sees that in his left leg, and he has a daughter, she will be asked for in marriage; and if he has no daughter, a daughter will be born to him.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 212–215

stumbling of the foot

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

Whoever sees in a dream that the big toe of his foot stumbled against the ground, then he will be beset and burdened with debt.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 240

And if blood comes out of it, then he will obtain unlawful wealth, or a calamity will befall him in his wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 240

horse's foot

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

An other dreamt he had a horse foot, and was afterward knighted: for as his feet bare him, in like sort the horse should carry him.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Fourth Booke of Artimedorus.

splitting the earth with the foot

Freud and Jung, a separate view

immortality (invulnerability) through entrance into the mother (splitting the mother with the foot, and to become covered up)

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

wound in the foot

Freud and Jung, a separate view

was bitten in his foot by a poisonous serpent_.[613] From then on he is ailing.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

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