How long does it take to read The Three Witches; or, The Combination Dream Dictionary?
A complete list of dreams. Having attached to every dream its fortunate numbers; also a combination table; and also giving a list of foreign and American coins, and their correct values in the United States. Also a few good recipes and addendum.
Isaac Wright, Madame La Vanie
The Three Witches; or, The Combination Dream Dictionary by Isaac Wright, Madame La Vanie takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1887. 178 pages, about 48,950 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
EACH DREAM IS NUMBERED. The Book That Is Supposed to Bring Luck to Policy Players. Almost everybody knows that there is a game called "policy;" and in these times of police raids and seizures, any one who reads all the newspapers can pick up a goodly number of points about the game, even while sitting virtuously by his own hearthstone. If he follows the accounts of the police raids carefully, he will notice that nearly every time a policy lay-out is taken, there will be included in the seizure at least one or two "dream books." If the reader is one of the truly good, he probably imagines that the dream books mentioned are like some fortune-telling books he has seen; but if he is just the least bit wicked, he knows that the policy dream book is in a class by itself. The only trustworthy policy dream book is not very formidable or mysterious in appearance. It is small, so it may be carried in the pocket, and on the cover are the words, "The Three Witches; or, Combination Dream Dictionary." There is also a picture of three witches such as one may see in any up-to-date production of "Macbeth." The inside of the book is not like that of the ordinary fortune-telling books. It consists of long columns of words carefully arranged in alphabetical order, and equally long columns of figures. One might think at first glance that these words amd figures were statistics of some kind. Perhaps they are, in a certain sense; but if so they are valuable only to policy players. The columns of words are the names of objects and persons and conditions such as any one may dream of, and the figures represent the combinations in the game of policy that are supposed to be attended with good luck to the person who dreams of the particular object or thing to which the figures correspond. No doubt the policy players who guide their plays by one of these books get rich in short order; at least, they soon get far enough along to retire. Faith in the teachings of the book is probably a matter of…
Subjects: Dreambooks, Dreams, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc., Afro-Americana, Wright, Isaac, Combinations
