Millstone in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

The Milstone, signifieth end of great and angry matters, and a good and loyall servant

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Second Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

Kinds and conditions of Millstone

millstone / mill

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

(The millstone) the mill indicates its owner's livelihood, his shop, and everyone who gains his living with him, or everyone who serves him, prepares his food, and whom he has intercourse with, whether wife or slave-girl. It may also indicate travel, because of its turning, and it may indicate plague and war, because of its crushing — and the Arabs and the poets often use it as an expression for that.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 523–526

So whoever buys a millstone will marry, if he is unmarried, or will marry off his daughter or his son, or will buy a servant for intercourse or for service, or will travel if he is one of the people of travel. And if he is poor, he will gain what suffices him, because no one needs a millstone except one who has something to grind in it.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 523–526

millstone / hand-mill

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

Then it indicates the attainment of good and livelihood, and perhaps the millstone is war, because of the saying of the Arabs: "The war turned as the millstone turns." And if it does not turn, then it is a woman whom he will obtain.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 116

And whoever sees that he is grinding with his hand, then he will obtain much good and will spend from the work of his hand, and perhaps that indicates marriage or taking a concubine.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 116

hand-mill (millstone)

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

In a dream it indicates the relief of its people from their straits, or their wealth after their poverty, and it indicates a wife for the bachelor, a husband for the unmarried woman, and a servant in the house.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 132

Seeing the hand-mill in a house where it was not their custom to have one indicates troubles, being overpowered, and quarrelling.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 132

the rahma (millstone/vulture)

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

As for the rahma (vulture), it is a foolish, filthy person.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 19–23

23 more passages on this symbol are in the database and used by the interpreter.