APPLE: temptation.
ART, MODERN: terribly interesting and opinionated person who will turn out to have absolutely no substance.
BAT: darkness of the human soooooooul.
BIRD, CAGED: desire for escape. Primarily used in relation to a female character trapped in an impossible economic situation out of which the readiest form of escape is a loveless marriage. Less commonly, used in relation to heterosexual white males longing to escape a patriarchal system designed and established to afford them every possible privilege.
BIRD OF PREY: woman, usually older, possibly dangerous.
BLOOD: tainted innocence, because menstruation.
BOARD GAME: when played by an adult male: virginity.
BOX: vagina (esp. when locked).
CAR: penis.
CAT: hopeless spinster, possibly disturbed. Also: emotional detachment.
CAVE: vagina.
CHESS: strategic conquest; usually of a woman, company, country, or other object towards which a man can have penis-feelings.
CORRIDOR: vagina.
CROCHET: see KNITTING
CROPS: fertility.
DOG: loyalty, unquestioning, possibly misguided.
DRESS, WEDDING: see WEDDING DRESS
EGG: birth, new life.
EXERCISE, REPETITIVE: emotional repression.
FEDORA: in a film made after 1980: dickhead.
FEATHER: when worn in hat: penis.
FLOOD: debauchery, or punishment for excess.
GUN: penis.
HEN: maternity.
HYSSOP: purity, purification. Not that you’d know, because have you ever seen and recognised hyssop? What even is hyssop? I mean, I’ve googled it now, so I know, but it just looks like rosemary TBH.
ICE CREAM: saddy sad sadness of the lonesome-hearted.
IRIS: vagina.
JIGSAW PUZZLE: woman.
KNITTING: quirky and eccentric young woman. Destined to become an object of desire for the hero; by the end of the film will have been coerced against her better judgment into a one-sided relationship which will inevitably leave her with almost no time for needlecrafts.
LIGHTNING: unconstrained and uncontrollable power.
MANGO: sensuality.
MOUNTAIN: penis.
MUSIC, LISTENING TO: emotional memories resurfacing.
OPERA: heightened emotional stakes.
ORCHARD: feminine secrets.
PEACH (or other stone fruit): tremblingly ripe but fragile nascent feminine sexuality.
PENIS: vulnerability.
ROSE, FULL BLOWN: sexually mature woman, possibly dangerous.
ROSEBUD: virginity.
SNAKE: penis.
SWORD: penis.
TRAIN: penis.
UKELELE: see KNITTING.
UNICORN: radiant innocence.
WATER, LARGE BODY OF: mysterious mysteries.
WATER: purification.
WEDDING DRESS: worn by a young bride or bride-to-be: the fulfillment of all earthly dreams and desires. Worn by a non-bride: mad spinster, possibly dangerous to the male protagonist.
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Unicorn: penis.