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Dream Premonitions of Shipwrecks Across Separate Dreams
A Victorian-era note recounts two families’ eerie link through premonitory dreams. A parish fisher’s wife, and later his daughter Lily, reported visions of a shipwreck involving the Atacama, which matched a real disaster as the vessel listed, sank with crew. The tale ties dream experience to maritime catastrophe and cites reports from the Australian and American press.
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Miringtoad
Atacama
Bydney
A. Ft
Gowtighaw
San Diego
Sydnéy
Spruit
Boilawala
Waa
Tlesvy Scaa
Boila
Spratt
Sydney Morning Herald
Papa
Tolly
Roth
Lily