See also Tylor, Early History of Mankind, pp. 5-10; and Primitive Culture, "Dreams."
There are many stories of dreams which foretold wealth and power, or were the means of the dreamer attaining them, e.g. "Gontram the good King of Burgundy," Claud Paradin, Symbola Heroica. Also Chambers's Book of Days, vol. i. pp. 276, 394, 617; vol. ii. p. 188. The writer remembers hearing an almost precisely similar story to the last, when the ill-fated "Lifeguard" was lost on her way from Newcastle to London.
The Indians pay great attention to their dreams during the long fast at the beginning of manhood: see Legends of the Wigwam, p. 99. In some stories one of the chief characters pretends to dream that she may obtain certain information, such as "Luxhale's wives:" Stories from the Land of Hofer, p. 317.
It is a common superstition in Holderness that a morning dream is sure to come true, but if it is told to anyone before breakfast, it will not.
Page [118]. "Immured alive": see a Magyar folk-song, "Clement the Mason," in the Academy, July 31, 1886. Cf. a paper read by Oscar Mailand before the Historical and Antiquarian Society of the County of Hunyad (April 29, 1885) on the legend of the building of the Monastery at Arges in Roumania. The story is nearly the same as in the song of "Clement the Mason." Manuli, the master builder, has a dream, wherein he is recommended to immure the first woman that appears on the scene; the victim is Manuli's wife. During the discussion that followed, the president, Count Géza Kuun, mentioned that the same tale is told of the castle of Dévén in the county of Nógrád; the fortress of Dévény near Pozsony (Pressburg); and of another fortress in the Trans-danubian division, and that the legend is of Slavonic origin.
Grimm, ii. "Maid Maleen," p. 350.
Livius, viii. c. 15, "Virgo Vestalis damnati incesti, viva deforsa est."
The king vows to slaughter thirty Muslims at the gate of his palace, when complete, in "Ali Noureddin." Payne's Arabian Nights, vol. viii. p. 141.
Folk-Lore Journal, 1880, p. 282; January 1883, "A Bewildering Superstition."
Cf. also the incident in "[Secret-keeping Little Boy]", p. [238].