How long does it take to read Encyclopedia of Witchcraft?
Richard M. Golden
Encyclopedia of Witchcraft by Richard M. Golden takes about 22 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 22 hours 42 minutes
A long haul
First published 2005. 1,238 pages, about 340,450 words.
46 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 37 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 22 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Over 170 contributors from 28 nations provide vivid, documented descriptions and analyses of witchcraft trials and locations, folklore and beliefs, magical practices and deities, influential texts, and the full range of players in this extraordinary drama, witchcraft theorists and theologians; historians and authors; judges, clergy, and rulers; the accused; and their persecutors. Concentrating on Europe and the Americas in the early modern era, the work also covers relevant topics from the ancient Near East (including the Hebrew and Christian Bibles), classical antiquity, and the European Middle Ages.
Subjects: Encyclopedias, Witchcraft, Wicca & paganism - historical, Religion - reference, History [MESH]
