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 Wood. To dream you are chopping off wood shows domestic happiness and riches. To dream of bearing wood on the back indicates affluence resulting from industry, but a wife and children of bad temper.

Wool. To dream of dealing in wool denotes riches from trade. To the lover it is good; his sweetheart is of an amiable disposition, constant, and affectionate.

Wound. To dream you are wounded denotes grief und vexation; if in the stomach or heart shows love.

Writing. When dreaming of writing a letter to your sweetheart, if yon put it into the post you will have pleasing return; but to trust it into other hands show: that your secrets will be exposed.

Yellow. To dream of this colour denotes to married women very great trouble from a female friend, and the loss of her husband's affections. To the lover in signifies marriage with a virgin.

Young. To dream you are young foretells peace, delight, und fruition of desire.

Yew Tree. An indication of the funeral of a very aged person by whose death the dreamer will derive benefit or receive protection from the relatives of the deceased.

Yoke. To dream of having to bear the yoke denote danger; if it be a woman she will be ready to obey her husband, and careful to govern her family.

Zone. To dream of zones foretells much trouble and vexation. To the tradesmen imprisonment and loss of goods-to the lover unfaithfulness in his sweetheart and disappointment in his undertakings.

The foregoing pages are published principally to show the superstitions which engrossed the mind of the population of Scotland during a past age, and which are happily disappearing before the progress of an enlightened civilization. It is hoped, therefore that the reader will not attach the slightest importance to the solutions of the dreams as already rendered, as dreams are generally the result of a disordered stomach, or an excited imagination