{"id":641,"date":"2013-02-08T00:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/?p=641"},"modified":"2013-02-08T03:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:45:54","slug":"carrie-noyes-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/641\/carrie-noyes-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"CARRIE NOYES DREAM, Feb 7 1885"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Benton, who had this in her collection, notes Caroline Atwell Noyes<\/a> (line of the blog’s author) had cut apart an envelope that had contained a letter addressed to herself and written this dream on the inside.<\/p>\n

The dream concerns her daughter Cora<\/a> going on a trip, and the numbers 87. It was a powerful dream for her, else she’d not have kept this scrap of paper. Why it was kept throughout her life, and after her death, I expect, was due the fact that on Oct 16, 1887 Cora died bearing her first and only child, Robert Greene Harmon, who survived and was raised by his aunt and uncle. <\/p>\n

The dream may have also been powerful to her due the fact she wonders in it if she is a witch. The line of Carrie’s husband, James Allen Noyes, was connected with the Salem witchcraft trials. Timothy Noyes, an ancestor, had a brother who was a clergyman witnessing at least four of the hangings, Rev’d. Nicholas Noyes, and was said to have been cursed.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia and other sources note that in folklore, witch’s milk, that taken from the breast of a newborn infant, was believed to be a source of nourishment for witches’ familiar spirits. Caroline may have been aware of this lore, which would have made even stronger for her a sense of prognostication of Cora’s dying in childbirth.<\/p>\n\n\n
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CARRIE NOYES DREAM<\/p>\n

Feb. 7 1885<\/p>\n

I also dreamed of being at some neighbors
\nhouse and seeing a woman and some
\nchildren – and it seems I sent a young
\nwoman to return a cloak to Mrs. Boulwares
\nfolks and she started with it but I afterwards
\nlearned she did not take it to the right
\nplace. I dreamed something about
\nCora, though she was not the messenger
\nI sent with the cloak – Cora went on the
\njourney I expected to take – and I saw
\nthe figures 8 7 which I understood meant
\nit would cost her eighty seven dollars to
\nbuy her ticket. – I also dreamed of seeing
\nmilk several times once when I set down
\nafter I had set there a little while I looked and
\nthere I was sitting in a great pan of milk.
\nThe pan was as big as a dish pan, and I exclaimed
\nwas (?) I a witch! Feb. 7 1885
\nCarrie A. Noyes <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Nancy Benton, who had this in her collection, notes Caroline Atwell Noyes (line of the blog’s author) had cut apart an envelope that had contained a letter addressed to herself and written this dream on the inside. The dream concerns her daughter Cora going on a trip, and the numbers 87. It was a powerful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,1],"tags":[101,150],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noyes-line","category-noyes-line-photos","category-uncategorized","tag-caroline-atwell-noyes","tag-cora-rachel-noyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}