To dream of handkerchiefs, denotes flirtations and contingent affairs.
To lose one, omens a broken engagement through no fault of yours.
To see torn ones, foretells that lovers’ quarrels will reach such straits that reconciliation will be improbable if not impossible.
To see them soiled, foretells that you will be corrupted by indiscriminate associations.
To see pure white ones in large lots, foretells that you will resist the insistent flattery of unscrupulous and evil-minded persons, and thus gain entrance into high relations with love and matrimony.
To see them colored, denotes that while your engagements may not be strictly moral, you will manage them with such ingenuity that they will elude opprobrium.
If you see silk handkerchiefs, it denotes that your pleasing and magnetic personality will shed its radiating cheerfulness upon others, making for yourself a fortunate existence.
For a young woman to wave adieu or a recognition with her handkerchief, or see others doing this, denotes that she will soon make a questionable pleasure trip, or she may knowingly run the gauntlet of disgrace to secure some fancied pleasure.
[1]A dream of clean handkerchiefs indicates the probability of a violent flirtation with someone you have not yet met.
If the handkerchiefs are wrinkled or soiled, it is an omen of disquieting news from an absent lover.
The loss of a handkerchief foretells that your engagement will be broken for some reason over which you have no control.
To see torn handkerchiefs is a presage of a quarrel with your lover which will probably not be adjusted satisfactorily».
[2]If you lose your handkerchief in a dream it is an omen showing that your engagement is in danger of breaking up.
If your hankie is torn then the lover’s quarrels will be so bad that you will not be able to make up.
If you see a stack of pure white handkerchiefs it shows that you will hold yourself true to your betrothed and enter into wedded bliss. Waving good-bye with it may denote disgrace for the dreamer.
[3]1. Overwhelming feelings of sadness—possibly grief and loss, possibly over a love relationship.
2. Serious arguments, possibly irreconcilable (a bloodstained handkerchief ).
3. Social embarrassment, downfall, sometimes due to indiscretions, flirtations.
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