How long does it take to read Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro?
Newbell Niles Puckett
Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro by Newbell Niles Puckett takes about 11 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1926. 644 pages, about 177,100 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it details "Negro folk beliefs, to show their origin whenever possible, and to indicate some of the general principles governing the transmission and content of folk-lore in general." (From the preface...)
Subjects: Folklore, Voodooism, African Americans, Social life and customs, Hoodoo (Cult), anthropology
