Dreaming of a Tannery

tannery, leather works, tanner, tanning · mixed

A tannery foretells illness and losses, or health and wealth, depending on the tradition.

What happens in the dream

  • You buy leather from a tannery: success in your ventures, but few friends
  • You are inside a tannery: health and riches
  • You are a tanner: work you dislike, but others depend on you
  • Your suitor is a tanner: a well-off, sturdy partner and a long life together
  • You see a tannery: contagion, illness and losses in trade

How you felt

  • Duty: the dream may reflect thankless work done for others
  • Toughness: it can mean you've hardened yourself

Ask yourself

  • What work am I doing mostly for others?
  • Have I grown too hard?

See also Leather · Animal Hide · Work · Disease

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862). Also searched as: leather works, tanner, tanning.

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