Historical dream account
A Lion In the Way
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888)
Dreams and Dream Stories (1888) · Part I, XI. A Lion In the Way
Owing to the many and great difficulties thrown in my way, I had been seriously considering the advisability of withdrawing, if only for a time, from my course of medical study, when I received the following dream, which determined me to persevere:—
I found myself on the same narrow, rugged, and precipitous path described in my last dream, and confronted by a lion. Afraid to pass him I turned and fled. On this the beast gave chase, when, finding escape by flight hopeless, I turned and boldly faced him. Whereupon the lion at once stopped and slunk to the side of the path, and suffered me to pass unmolested, though I was so close to him that I could not avoid touching him with my garments in passing.
—Paris, Nov. 15, 1877
Source & context
The nineteenth-century author presented this as a dream recorded from her diary. It is not a verified waking event, modern submission, clinical finding, or evidence that any prediction is true.
Complete English account from Part I, XI. A Lion In the Way of Dreams and Dream Stories, published in 1888 and edited by Edward Maitland. Its original narrative is preserved; headings, datelines and the historical editor’s notes are displayed separately.
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Content notes
- An encounter with a dangerous animal
- A predictive claim in the historical editor’s separate note
Notes from the historical editor
These words belong to the book’s historical editor. They are not claims made by Synastry.
—————— * The prognostic was fully justified by the event.—(Ed.) ——————-
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