Historical dream account · English · original text
The Bird and the Cat
Anna Bonus Kingsford
Dreams and Dream Stories (1888) · Part I, account V: The Bird and the Cat; normalized HTML blocks 77,79
I dreamt that I had a beautiful bird in a cage, and that the cage was placed on a table in a room where there was a cat. I took the bird out of the cage and put him on the table. Instantly the cat sprang upon
him and seized him in her mouth. I threw myself upon her and strove to wrest away her prey, loading her with reproaches and bewailing the fate of my beautiful bird. Then suddenly some one said to me, "You have only yourself to blame for this misfortune. While the bird remained in his cage he was safe. Why should you have taken him out before the eyes of the cat?"
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A historical account from Part I of Anna Bonus Kingsford’s Dreams and Dream Stories (1888). Source prose and original title are retained; normalization and omitted editorial footnotes are documented separately. This is not a Synastry community submission.
Anna Bonus Kingsford, Dreams and Dream Stories (1888), Part I, V: The Bird and the Cat. Project Gutenberg transcription. Historical recorded dream; author died in 1888.
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Part I, account V: The Bird and the Cat; normalized HTML blocks 77,79
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Content notes
- Animal harm
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