Dream dictionary – symbols, part 19

Dreams are the visions that arise while your body rests and your brain carries on working hard. Dream omens can be prophecies for ourselves and for those close to us – some people have avoided danger or stumbled upon good fortune thanks to prophetic dreams. It is worth remembering, however, that the symbolism of every dream is best read individually. Below you will find the traditional meanings of dream symbols listed under the Polish letter S (and its accented form).

Adit (mine gallery) – A mine tunnel – you will increase your wealth.
Aeroplane – Seeing one – you have ambitious plans; flying in one – you will reach your intended goal and a considerable position.
Alehouse – Luxury and wealth.
Anchovies – Seeing them – your business is blessed; eating them – disputes at home.
Antiquity – You will fall into poverty; according to another tradition, you will receive treasures or an inheritance.
Arrow – Discord; seeing one – an accident awaits you; shooting one from a bow and hitting the mark – you will force your way to success; being hit by one – bitter disappointment.
Asparagus – Cutting it – you will live to see pleasant times; eating it – robust health.
Asparagus bed – Large profits.
Aunt (uncle’s wife) – Tall tales and gossip.
Awl – Pricking yourself with one – your efforts will be rewarded.
Axe – Great danger; seeing one – hardship; working with one – a good living; chopping wood – discord.
Bacon fat – Eating it – contentment; seeing it – you are walking a dangerous path; slicing it – mourning; rendering it – take care of the future.
Bailiff – Luck in business.
Bar (ingot) – After brief effort you will achieve success.
Barn – Full – a large profit and growing prosperity; empty – vain hopes or dishonest gains.
Beckoning – Beckoning to someone – you will set off on a journey; seeing someone wave – you will have to part with people who are dear to you.
Bedroom – Seeing one – luck in love; climbing into one through the window – you have bad intentions; tidying one – look after your health.
Beheading – Seeing one – a loss threatens you; being beheaded – fear and sadness.
Being burnt – Passionate love.
Bench vice – Happiness and love remain faithful to you.
Bending down – Humiliation and loss.
Blind – A blind person – a warning of danger.
Boss – Seeing your boss – you will get a different superior; talking to them – you will get a better job.
Bound (tied up) – Being tied up – you will be invited to a secret rendezvous.
Bow (for a violin) – You overcome unpleasant matters with ease.
Braces – You will find help and care.
Breaking something – An unpleasantness.
Bristles – Seeing or touching them – adversity awaits you.
Brook (stream) – Large and wide – you will accomplish considerable works; with clear water – a pleasant future awaits you; rushing – business in a bad way, failures and obstacles; standing or bathing in one – a return to health; wading across – you will reach your goal; teeming with fish – a profitable undertaking or many children; flowing lazily – your helpers are lazy; deep – false friends; murky – harm and losses, and if it is flowing towards the house – a threat of fire; clear, flowing towards the house – success; dried up – poverty and bad times.
Brother-in-law, sister-in-law – Important family matters.
Bruises – A false friend; having bruises – misfortune among your distant relatives; bruising others – you will put your enemies to shame.
Brush – Quarrels at home, distress; a shoe brush – you will find decent earnings; a toothbrush – keep everything in order; brushing clothes – someone will treat you boorishly; brushing your hair – guests will arrive.
Buckles – Wearing them – beware of enemies.
Bung – Wealth.
Candle – You will break off with people who made out they were your best friends; seeing candles burning – you have true friends; lighting a candle (for a girl) – a meeting with her beloved against her parents’ wishes; putting candles on the Christmas tree – you will bring joy to others.
Candlestick – A celebration awaits you.
Car – A large one – you set yourself above others; a breakdown – take a critical look at your behaviour.
Carcass – An animal carcass – a long life.
Carob (St John’s bread) – Eating it – your hope is faint.
Carpenter – A marriage soon.
Casket – You have a secret before you; with a key – you will uncover a secret; open – your secrets have been betrayed; carrying one – you will recklessly throw away your happiness.
Celery – Company that is too merry; eating it – great joy; buying it – a love affair.
Certificate – Receiving one – you will learn the truth; issuing one – your conscientiousness will win you friends.
Champagne – Unending happiness; according to another tradition, a life of carousing and luxury.
Chansonette – You are inclined to revelry.
Charlatan – Seeing one – you will escape danger; putting yourself in his hands – you will come to harm through foolishness.
Chasing – Someone wants to get ahead of you; chasing someone – you will finally find peace; being chased – you will be hurt by slander.
Cheese – Happiness and good health; fresh – good health; smelly – illness; slicing it – an operation awaits you; Swiss cheese – you will always have good, wholesome food.
Chess – Good intentions and plans; winning – you will bring your plans to fruition; losing – unpleasantness; learning to play – needless effort, doubtful success.
Chess pieces – You have a lot of thinking to do.
Chest (trunk) – You will amass treasures; full – plenty, you will be entrusted with a secret; empty – worry and distress; carrying one – unpleasant times.
Chimpanzee – Hatred and envy.
Chives – Good earnings, but also quarrels in marriage.
Cloth (woollen) – Fine – the comforts of life; coarse – failure.
Cockroaches – A wedding soon.
Complaint – Lodging one – do not be forever dissatisfied; accusing someone – you will know joy; listening to a complaint – someone needs your help.
Compulsory auction – An auction – you will lose part of your property.
Confession – Going to confession – a troubled heart.
Confessor – You intend to do something wrong.
Connections – Making new acquaintances and contacts – your business will grow.
Conspiracy – Uncovering one – a good job; taking part in one – you will lose a friend.
Consumption – Suffering from it in a dream – a long life and good health.
Conviction (convict) – Worries.
Cord (string) – Your situation will improve; gold or silver – you will be respected; tangled – you will get into a difficult situation.
Court (of law) – Dishonest intentions; dealing with a court – stand by your arguments; being tried – you will meet with ingratitude; being convicted – the loss of property and of your good name.
Court usher – Wicked people want to harm you.
Courtroom – Misfortune.
Cream – Happiness; seeing it – an inheritance; drinking it – the best of health; eating whipped cream – you will achieve success.
Cricket (insect) – Hearing one – you have friends you do not know about.
Crush (throng) – Feeling it – quarrels and anger.
Cutting down – You will overcome your enemies.
Cutting yourself – An unexpected, joyful meeting.
Dagger – Seeing one – you will defeat your enemies; fighting with one – you will triumph over your opponents; being wounded by one – you will receive a gift.
Daisy – A sweet, innocent person whom you like loves you.
Daughter-in-law – You will be recognised.
Dawn – Darkness, turmoil and uncertainty are behind you.
Death – Seeing death, including someone else’s – a long life awaits you.
Devastation – Seeing it – you must redefine your career path.
Dictionary – Progress in your studies.
Discharged (debt settled) – Having your account settled – you will fall into poverty.
Dispute (quarrel) – Changeable relationships, beware of enemies; getting into disputes – you will win friends.
Distress – Unpleasant disputes.
Dive (low bar) – You will lose the respect of others.
Dog barking – Hearing it – heed your friends’ warnings.
Dragon – An unpleasant position.
Drawer – Your efforts are in vain.
Dress (gown) – Wearing beautiful dresses – prosperity; buying one – you will make peace with your enemies; black – sad news; blue or green – your wishes will come true; yellow – jealousy and falsehood; white – a wedding soon; red – you will become arrogant; grey – hard work; multicoloured – a journey awaits you; woven with gold – great happiness and honours; sewing one – hard work will be rewarded; washing one – be thrifty; torn – a quarrel; stained – your good name will suffer; on fire – insult and slander; too short – bad business.
Dressing gown – An addition to the family.
Dressing up – Trust in favourable circumstances.
Drill (auger) – Luck is on your side; seeing one or working with one – the loss of a client in business.
Drying laundry – Illness of a relative.
Earthwork (redoubt) – Building one – uncertainty on every front; being in one – loyal friends and faithful love.
Easel – You have fine prospects.
Easter basket (blessed food) – You will have to play the saint at home.
Edelweiss – You will overcome difficulties; searching for one, finding it and pinning it in your buttonhole – you are a show-off.
Elephant – Prudence, a late marriage; a dead elephant – plans that fail.
Emerald – The changing course of fortune.
Falcon – Hunting; in flight – deception.
Falling (people) – Seeing people fall – be careful, you will have to make an important decision.
Fame – Winning fame – you will have dealings with the authorities.
Fear – Experiencing it – a joyful surprise; feeling it for a long time – worry and want.
Feet – Health and happiness; small ones – want; injured ones – sadness.
Film extra – Being one – you should show more sincerity.
Fire hose (squirt) – Working one – you will help a friend; a fire engine on its way – danger; being sprayed – you are nosy; a firefighters’ hose – you will lose a certain advantage.
Firing position – Troubled times.
Folding – Others are looking after your future.
Foul weather – Worries.
Frying – An invitation to a feast.
Full (well fed) – Being full – lasting contentment.
Gable – Prosperity.
Gaiters – You have a clearly defined goal.
Gallows – Honour and glory.
Gemstone – Seeing one – you will give in to temptation; receiving one – a mistaken judgement in some matter; losing one – you will fall victim to theft; having many – you will attain dignity and honours.
Glass – Risky speculation; grinding it – you are given to speculation; cutting it – a marriage soon.
Glass (tumbler) – With water – good health; empty – disappointment; cracked – you will suffer a loss through fraud; breaking one – distress; giving one as a gift – the loss of a friend.
Glow-worm – You will receive news of love.
Goldfinch – Troublesome neighbours.
Granary – Full – happiness and blessings; empty – you will squander your luck.
Greasing – You are surrounded by corruptible people.
Guard – Seeing guards – look after what you own; mounting guard – you will come up against obstacles; standing under arms – certainty; called out – you enjoy people’s trust; being stopped by them – secure, steady work.
Guinea pig – Worry.
Gunpowder (black powder) – You have too little energy.
Hall – A large one – pleasant relations with people; dancing in one – a merry life; owning such a hall – you will gain wealth.
Halter (hangman’s noose) – You have false friends; seeing yourself in the noose – your proud wishes will come true; seeing others in it – loss and harm.
Ham – Wealth, a large family; eating it – a worsening of your living conditions.
Hay – Good news, a carefree old age.
Haystack – You will obtain favourable financial circumstances.
Hearing – Losing your hearing – you are inattentive.
Herd – An unfulfilled wish; raising a herd – a happy future.
Herring – An invitation to visit will arrive; eating one – be moderate; seeing people eating herring – you will receive an invitation; a rollmop – beware of carousing.
Highway – Great earnings.
Hoarfrost – On roofs and fields – shattered hopes.
Hospital – You will live comfortably; being in hospital – sad news.
Household goods – Seeing them – happiness in marriage; knocked over – keep your home in order; cleaning or tidying them – a marriage soon.
Ice rink – By a happy coincidence you will quickly increase your wealth.
Icicle – Your love will cool.
Inheritance – Release from an unpleasant situation.
Innkeeper – An invitation to a feast.
Judge – You will obtain your rights.
Juice – Recovery, a long life; squeezing it – you will carry out your plans; drinking sweet juice – contentment; bitter – unwelcome obligations; giving it to the sick – you have support.
Jumping – You have worries; jumping into water – someone wants to beguile you; jumping over a ditch – you will free yourself from debt.
Lard – Luck in love; warming it – hope for the future; buying it – there are ill-disposed women around you.
Larder – You will live to see merry times.
Larding (meat) – You are making marriage plans.
Laughter – Seeing people laughing – unpleasantness and mockery; hearing laughter – unpleasantness; laughing yourself – you will have reason to rejoice.
Leap – The loss of a friend; a leap into the air – you will lose your job.
Legacy (estate) – Seeing it or putting it in order – you must bring order to your affairs.
Lentils – Eating them – fear and worry; cooking them – you will avoid misfortune; sorting them – laborious work.
Lettuce – A slight weakness; sowing it – you busy yourself with useless things; eating it – good prospects; picking it – you have a great deal of audacity; rinsing it – you are a good housekeeper.
Light – Seeing it – happiness; bright – success and happiness; in the distance – you may cherish fine hopes; carrying one – joy; lighting one – you will learn of hidden matters; putting it out – your plan is a bad one; seeing someone put it out – bad news.
Line of people (guard of honour) – You will hear various opinions about yourself.
Lipstick – Falsehood and betrayal; seeing it – do not be taken in by appearances; putting it on – an attempt to cover something up will fail; seeing someone made up – there is an insincere friend among those around you; making up others – betrayal.
Locksmith – You will learn a secret.
Loft – You will avoid trouble.
Loneliness – Living alone – you will be abandoned.
Losing weight – Seeing yourself thin – the threat of a loss; seeing others thin – profit from other people’s losses.
Mad – Being mad – happiness this year; rein in your passions; seeing mad people – false news and lies; seeing someone raving – protect yourself against violence.
Made of straw – A thatched roof – hard times; a straw hat – you will be lucky; straw wreaths – someone wants to hurt you.
Madness – A happy turn in business.
Magpie – Quarrels; you will be robbed.
Maid – Hiring one – you will be suspected; seeing one – worry and anger; dismissing one – distress because of gossip.
Mallow – Picking it – prosperity.
Manservant – You like your comforts; being waited on by one – distress awaits you.
Marksman – You will meet a man of honour.
Marrow (bone marrow) – You will find wealth.
Meeting – You will have to change your plan of action; with a friend – a pleasant surprise; with an enemy – something unpleasant.
Midsummer bonfires (Sobótki) – Great joy.
Miser – A financial loss.
Mockery – Being mocked – you will get caught up in a court case.
Money box – A slow increase in your wealth.
Morocco leather – You will achieve recognition.
Napkin (tablecloth) – You will ruin your own happiness.
Neck – Beautiful – an engagement soon; long and thin – poor health; swollen – happiness; washing it – good health; seeing a threat to your neck – someone wants to undermine your livelihood.
Neighbour – Great unpleasantness because of gossip; seeing your neighbours – misfortune; talking to them – gossip.
Net – Successful business; a fishing net – you will get a good job; casting one – you are involved in shady dealings; getting tangled in one – you let yourself be talked into wrongdoing; being unable to free yourself from one – you will fall head over heels in love; tearing it – you will foil your enemies’ scheme; making a net – joy.
Nightingale – A marriage proposal; hearing it sing – joy and happiness in marriage; catching one – joy.
Old clothes – Wearing them – great honours; seeing them – a decline in your fortunes; taking them off – abandon an old plan.
Old men – You will gather a wealth of experience.
Orchard – Wealth; spending time in one – success in life.
Orphan – Being an orphan – hardships; seeing an orphan – you have an opportunity to help your neighbour.
Ostrich – Seeing one – unwelcome obstacles; ostrich feathers – you are very proud.
Owl – Beware of bad company; seeing one – illness of someone close to you; hooting – sad news of a death; flying – you will escape danger; on the roof of a house – misfortune for that house; a little owl – an unhappy event.
Palings – You must overcome obstacles.
Parachute – Illness.
Path – You will find happiness almost without obstacles; a wide one – a life without obstacles; a narrow one – you will give in to temptation.
Penknife – Intrigues and want, someone will drag you into a lawsuit; finding one – a sincere friend; cutting yourself with one – marital infidelity.
Pig – Owning or fattening one – great happiness; feeding one – you take care of the future; slaughtering one – benefits and domestic happiness; eating pork – moderate earnings; giving one to someone – sadness; wallowing in mud – bad domestic relations; with piglets – you will earn a lot; a wild boar – wicked people will harm you; shooting a wild boar – a great fear will vanish.
Pike – Someone is deceiving you; according to another tradition, someone is waiting for you.
Pillar – You will never know poverty.
Pin – You will get plenty of well-paid work.
Pincers – Seeing pincers – you will undermine your own happiness; working with them – you will find help in misfortune.
Pinching – Bad friends.
Pine – Great earnings; you have loyal and steadfast friends.
Pitch torches (wreaths) – You will throw a merry party.
Plaiting hair – Unfaithfulness.
Plums – Ripe – joyful though short-lived events; unripe – a personal unpleasantness; eating them – digestive trouble; picking unripe or rotten ones – false friends or an unfaithful partner; a plum tree in blossom – the world is your oyster; a withered tree – dull company.
Poisoning – Poisoning someone – a warning against base, underhand behaviour; being poisoned – the loss of friends.
Pond – Be careful; according to another tradition, you will get a handsome husband.
Pork loin – Prosperity.
Prompter – You mix with naive people.
Propeller – Prosperity will grow in your home.
Pulses – Eating them – you will meet a narrow-minded person; shelling pods – you will make discoveries; empty pods – wasted effort.
Purse – Empty – you are hoping for an inheritance; full – the inheritance will be lost.
Pyre – An unfortunate stroke of fate; burning – someone is persecuting you because of your courage; seeing yourself on one – you are making mistakes that cannot be undone.
Rapier – Holding one – joy and honour; fencing with one – friendship; drawing it from its sheath – a clash will soon break out; cutting yourself on one – prosperity and powerful patronage; broken – news of someone’s death; losing one – poverty.
Rascal – Someone is making fun of you.
Rats – Someone wants to trick you; seeing a rat running – someone loves you passionately.
Refuge (shelter) – Finding one – a cheerful future; losing one – unpleasantness.
Resting – A carefree old age.
Rock – Success after great hardship; seeing one – work and toil; climbing one – wishes fulfilled; falling from one – the loss of friends and relatives; a very high one – great plans.
Roe deer – Seeing one – happiness and prosperity; leaping – pleasant company; shooting one – you will do something rash.
Rubbish – After lean years will come fat ones, full of success.
Rubbish heap – Seeing one – growing prosperity; stepping into one – unpleasantness in your home life.
Rudder – Shattered hopes.
Rushes – Seeing them – uncertain happiness; gathering them – false hope.
Rusk – Think of harder times and save; eating rusks – a good income.
Rustling (whooshing) – Hearing it – misfortune on a journey; the rushing of the wind – an accident awaits you; the rushing of water – an accident while travelling.
Sabbath (witches’) – Taking part in one – you have hidden talents; huge changes await you in the autumn.
Sabre – Courage; seeing one – you are brave; slashing with one – you will clear your path through life with energy; being cut by one – worries; sharpened – your plans will be crowned with success; blunt and notched – wasted effort; broken – you will be defeated.
Saddle – Seeing one – you will find help with an undertaking; sitting in one – easy money; being thrown from one – luck at gambling.
Saddler – Profit and success.
Sadness – A great deal of joy; being sad – you will gain protectors.
Saffron – Pride and illusion; eating it – news of someone’s death.
Sage – Eating it – a long life.
Saints – Seeing them – you will attain much that is good; praying to them – you will attend church services.
Sal ammoniac – Smelling it – you will receive unwelcome news.
Salami – A merry life; eating it – good health and a lasting friendship.
Saliva – Quarrelsome people are poisoning your life.
Salt – You will live through hard times; in a barrel – discord in the family; eating it – you are witty; spilt – worry and distress; pounding it – an older woman will help you in your suffering.
Salt cellar – You will regret something.
Salt mine – A beautiful future.
Saltpetre – Only partial success.
Sandals – You will have a wonderful child; according to another tradition, you are an eccentric.
Sapphire – Various nuisances; seeing one or wearing one in a ring – slander.
Sardines – Lasting happiness.
Sash – You will earn a decoration.
Satan – Seeing him – you will endure humiliation.
Saturday – Plenty of work.
Scabies – Having it – you worry in vain; feeling itchy – you will receive money.
Scaffold – You will achieve honours and distinctions.
Scandal – Hearing about one – you will fall out with a friend.
Scarecrow – You succumb to naive illusions.
Scarlet – The colour scarlet – you are very proud; scarlet gowns – you are harming yourself through pride.
Scarlet fever – A domestic quarrel.
School – Being at school – you will meet with unpleasantness; full of children – much distress; taking children to school – you look after your family; going into one – happiness.
School desk – You still have a great deal to learn.
Scorpion – Well-deserved punishment and losses.
Scraper – Minor unpleasantness; scraping with one – friends and faithful love; cutting yourself on one – you are surrounded by ill-disposed women.
Screw – Close acquaintances will mock you.
Screwdriver – Discord will force its way into your home.
Scrubbing – Seeing someone scrub – order in the home; scrubbing yourself – you cannot save anything.
Searching – Unattainable desires.
Second (in a duel) – Someone will slander you.
Seedlings (sown crop) – Green – good earnings; sprouting – an addition to the family; yellow, without ears – plans that fail.
Selling – Worries and poverty.
Seminary – People will try to trick you.
Sentinel – Seeing a sentry – a wealthy marriage; standing at his post – guard the honour of your house.
Seraglio – The Sultan’s palace – you will do foolish things.
Service – Being in service – you are in danger of becoming dependent on others.
Seven – The number seven – happiness.
Sewing – The prosperity of your home is growing; pricking yourself while sewing – a young wife will come into the house; being unable to manage – a quarrel between husband and wife.
Sex – Closeness with another person – fulfilling relationships and a very good rapport with those around you.
Shawm – Hearing this instrument played – you are hiding love in your heart; playing it – greetings from someone you love.
Sheaf of straw – Toil and effort.
Shed – You will receive a lot of money.
Shell (eggshell) – You will fight your way to success.
Shoelaces – You will find someone to love.
Shoemaker – You are harming yourself through a lack of prudence.
Shooting (shot) – Hearing a shot – you will fall in love; hearing shooting – danger; seeing shooting – you have fine goals; shooting yourself – joyful news; firing a pistol – noise and a dispute.
Shop – With many customers – good business and plenty; going into one – considerable expenses; closed – business going badly; walking past one – you will resist temptation.
Shotgun – Seeing one – you will be in good spirits; receiving one – an honour; firing one – do not be reckless; a hunting rifle – one undertaking will fail.
Sickle – Profits, success in farming.
Sieve – You live extravagantly; buying one – unhappiness in marriage; sifting something – your request will be turned down; scooping up water with one – think your undertakings through more carefully.
Signboard – You will find a benefactor; an inn sign – bad habits; a craftsman’s or shop sign – good business.
Silver – Persecution; receiving it – recognition of your merits; selling it – a profitable speculation; buying it – great changes; silverware – prosperity; silver coins – good times are coming, but small change – one hope will not be fulfilled; raw silver – a little piety will do you no harm; melted – losses.
Singer – Hearing one – happiness and blessings.
Singing – Hearing singing or singing yourself – cheerfulness, relaxation and a carefree mood.
Siren (mermaid) – Do not believe false oaths.
Sister – Joy in the family; seeing her or talking to her – good relations.
Sitting on a throne – You will gain money and possessions.
Skat (card game) – Playing skat – an exciting experience awaits you.
Skeleton – Death or illness nearby; according to another tradition, you will receive a sizeable inheritance.
Skewer – Happy domestic relations.
Skin – A beautiful, fair complexion – you will be loved; wrinkled – you will live to a ripe old age. An animal hide: seeing one – adversity; black or brown – betrayal; tanned – poor health; tanning one – losses; buying one – damage to your health; cutting one – unpleasant disputes; buying leather for soles – someone is persecuting you.
Skirt – A quarrel between women.
Skylark – Swift promotion, love returned.
Sledge – A dubious pleasure, entertainment that brings no satisfaction; loaded – profit; riding in one – you will soon reach a longed-for goal; sledging downhill – you will get into unexpected trouble.
Sleep – Someone will make a fool of you.
Sleepers – Seeing people asleep – joy.
Sleeping – In the open air – long journeys; in a summerhouse – a future full of hope; at an inn – one of your wishes will come true; in a carriage or railway carriage – you will make profitable business contacts; in church – someone will lie to you; being woken up – distress; sleepwalking – you are at risk of an accident; at your parents’ home – happiness, honour and contentment; at the home of someone you love – people are jealous of you; in your own bed – laziness.
Sleeping bag – Dreaming of one – you will be reconciled with someone close to you; buying one – many happy days; sleeping in one – you have huge opportunities to make your dreams come true.
Sliding – Sliding on ice – you will fall into the wrong hands.
Small table – A card table – you will live in plenty; a sewing table – a blissful future.
Snail – Your income will grow slowly – every penny counts, and many a little makes a lot.
Snap trap – You will escape a great danger.
Snare – Someone wants to harm you; you will be betrayed.
Snow – Moments of weakness.
Snowballs – Making them – you will suffer harm; throwing them – you are wronging a friend.
Socks – A hike.
Sofa – A calm and serene future.
Somersault – Turning one – great delight.
Son – Worry or a slight indisposition.
Soot – Luck is on your side.
Sorrel – Malicious slander.
Sowing – You will grow rich; seeing others sowing – good health.
Sparks – Flying sparks – be diligent and thrifty; sparks catching fire – a fire.
Spatula (putty knife) – Stinginess and envy.
Spectre – Misfortune.
Sphinx – You will penetrate a mystery.
Spinach – Strength and good health.
Spitz – A spitz dog – you have a loyal friend.
Spleen – Your behaviour scandalises people.
Spoke – Look for remedies.
Spool – Small earnings.
Spruce – You will get a quiet corner of your own that you will be very happy with.
Spy – You will commit a shameful act.
Squadron – There will be a great deal of fuss around you.
Stable – You will achieve prosperity.
Stable boy – You have trustworthy helpers.
Stage – You are not being told the truth; a theatre stage – slow profit.
Stage play – Watching one – one of your wishes will come true.
Stairs – Seeing them – you will make a career for yourself, joy and benefit; climbing them – great effort, but also an improvement in your situation; going down them – a slow decline in your fortunes, a hard struggle to make a living; falling down them – a loss in business.
Stamp (die) – You will hear the truth about yourself.
Starlings – Seeing them – someone is slandering you.
Start (take-off) – Dubious benefits.
Station – You will go on a journey.
Statue (figure) – Your love will not be returned.
Steel – Striking fire with it – you will guess a secret.
Stench – Bad company.
Stencil (template) – You lack independence.
Steppe – Small earnings.
Steps – Promotion and elevation.
Stilts – Danger.
Stirrup – You will soon go on a journey.
Stockfish – Poverty.
Stool – You will find pleasant rest.
Straw – Seeing it – you will run into difficulties; threshing empty straw – you talk too much about pointless things; burning – do not worry needlessly; floating in the air – a christening; in bundles – excess; sleeping on it – poverty.
Straw mat – You enjoy doing your job.
Straw mattress – Sleeping on one – you will have loyal servants.
Strings – Hearing them played – distress.
Stubble field – A sign of adversity.
Student – Seeing one – lasting joy; being one – contentment.
Sucking – Making use of your wealth.
Suggestion – Talking someone into something – you are an influential person; letting yourself be talked into something – you lack energy and determination.
Suicide – Committing suicide in a dream – misfortune through your own fault.
Sulphur – You will escape the danger of fire.
Sultan – A lust for power.
Sun – Success in your undertakings, growing wealth, a peaceful life. Shining beautifully – success in business; setting beautifully – a prosperous, beautiful evening of life; rising – good news by letter; blood-red – you will receive a king’s ransom; dimmed – business in a bad way; an eclipse – a passing weakness; the sun and the moon in the sky together – conflict and unrest.
Sundial – You are fighting in vain for happiness.
Sunflower – Your passionate love will not be returned.
Sweets – Romantic ups and downs.
Swineherd – A swineherd – you have or will get a good wife.
Swiss guard (doorman) – Strength and good health.
Synagogue – A quiet, comfortable life.
Syrup – Give up naive desires.
Table – Laid – you will reach prosperity; laying it – good news and wealth; clearing it – profit is passing you by; sitting at it – merry company; sitting on it – joy; empty – shortages.
Taking shorthand – News of someone’s death.
Tapping – Doing it yourself – disturbing news; hearing tapping – pleasant news.
Tar – Dealing with it – you will achieve plenty; getting tar on yourself – you will fall into the wrong company.
Tavern (taproom) – Unpleasant company and distress.
Temple – You will find a great deal of joy in life.
Thatch – A modest home life.
Tortoiseshell – Secret joys.
Trail (tracks) – Following a trail or shadowing someone – you will soon meet wicked people or an enemy.
Treasure – Unexpected joy; finding treasure – unexpected joy; digging for it – your plan will fall through; searching for treasures – wasted effort; hoarding them – needless worry.
Treasurer – Financial gain.
Treasury (vault) – Many worries and much fear.
Trousers – Wearing black ones – suffering; white ones – you will recognise your mistake; torn ones – you will be humiliated; putting them on – you will gain the upper hand at home; taking them off – illness; losing them – you will end up under someone’s thumb; patching them – money troubles.
Tryst – The joys of love.
Turtle doves – You have warm relations with your loved ones.
Uncle (father’s brother) – Great benefit.
Underwear – Colourful – mockery and shame; white – refinement; torn – you are neglecting an urgent matter.
Vaccinating (grafting) – Vaccinating or grafting yourself – you share your friends’ views; being vaccinated – you will have to put up with unpleasantness.
Vault (arched ceiling) – Standing beneath one – you will increase your wealth through prudence.
Venison – You will have distinguished guests.
Violin – Harmony in marriage; hearing one – unfulfilled wishes.
Vow – Making one – you will return to your duties.
Vulture – You will attract the interest of an eminent person.
Walking (strolling) – Joy and happiness.
Wall – An insurmountable obstacle.
Wardrobe – A pleasant home life; seeing one – openness wins people over more than secrecy; buying one – prosperity; hiding something in it – you must cut back; a linen cupboard – an engagement; a wardrobe for dresses – happiness.
Watchman – You will recover something you lost.
Wedding – Attending one – new duties.
Well – An uncertain future; drawing water from it – good business; drinking from it – health and strength; digging one – a profitable deal; without water – worries.
Wether (castrated ram) – You have more luck than sense.
Whippersnapper – Be careful.
Wig stand – A happy marriage.
Windowpane – You are worse off than others; a clean, clear windowpane – you will be warmly received; cloudy or green – people speak ill of you.
Witness – Being a witness – you must confess the truth.
Woodpile – Happiness and profit.
Word – Breaking your word – unfulfilled hopes.
Zander (pike-perch) – Seeing or eating one – you will gain financial benefits.

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