Dream Books and Work-Out Books for Lottery and Policy Betting

[catherineyronwode]

I am working on a graphic arts project for the reprint edition of the
Rajah Rabo Pick'em Dream Book. This classic of African American dream
interpretation and lottery prognostication has been out of print for
almost a year and i have gone in on a deal with the publisher whereby i
am cleaning up the cover art (as i did for the Kansas City Kitty Dream
Book reprint earlier this year) in exchange for an inside cover ad. You
can read about the Pick'em here --

http://luckymojo.com/pickemdreambook.html

-- and see the degenerated cover that was used on the last edition --
the result of endless pick-ups of art each time it was reprinted. I am
virtually redrawing it, taking as my model an older edition, in order
to give the art some "oomph" and life again. I am very excited to be
doing this, as the Pick'em is a very unusual dream book and quite
famous in conjure circles.

--cat yronwode

[snake]

I picked up copies of Aunt Sally's Dream Book and Kansas City Kitty Dream Book, and I've been trying to figure out how to use the numbers from my dreams.

Kansas City Kitty gives sets of three digit numbers to use for Daily Three lotto drawings, but also gives a set of three numbers that are one through seventy-something.

Aunt Sallys gives you up to five numbers one through seventy-something. How do you use these numbers to come up with a full set of lucky numbers for games like powerball, where you need five numbers and the powerball number, and the balls are numbered one through 59?

And how do you choose which lottery to play? (powerball, state lotteries, etc.)

[Mama Micki]

I love Kansas City Kitty! Fun pictures, horoscopes, birthstones, and lucky numbers for birthdays, holidays, dreams, and names.

Be creative. Use your name, birthday, a current holiday, and/or dreams. Use parts of three-digit numbers and flip two-digit numbers to fit your game. For example, 72 can become 27 and 392 can become 39, 92, 29, 32, 23, or 32.

As far as which lottery to play, many states in the US have several games to choose from; Washington State has seven, plus scratch tickets. There are games with astronomical odds and huge jackpots, such as Powerball. There are also games with much smaller jackpots, but much better odds.

[cognitivedissonance]

Washington State's Daily Game is nearly indistinguishable from Policy... We're lucky to have it.

[Mama Micki]

You're right, CD!

[rjwcim]

I'm also a WA. State resident I never played the lottery but my partner pushes me to do it.....after reading this I think I have the motivation to start playing haha.

Ra'Shay

[cognitivedissonance]

I'm also a WA. State resident I never played the lottery but my partner pushes me to do it.....after reading this I think I have the motivation to start playing haha.

Ra'Shay

It's a fifty cent bet minimum (making it the cheapest game), and the draw is daily. The win is never more than $500, though. Make sure you read the instructions before playing, because they can be very complicated, and it's a bit like horse track gambling in that you can either choose just a set of numbers or the set of numbers in a specific order, for a lower bet and a higher payout.

The only thing that makes it different from old time Policy is the draw of numbers is not as large (0-9). However, this puts your chances, if you pay attention to statistics, at 1:8, if you go with the easiest set of options. Aunt Sally's Dream Book products would be OF ENORMOUS HELP with this game.

I'm mildly obsessed with the lottery games, and I play with very rigid systems and personal rules. For instance, I only buy scratch tickets when it's the last one on the roll, no exceptions. Personal superstitions!

[ElectroKid]

hello

I Just want to know--

1) i am from the united kingdom; which Lottery Dream books should i get?

2) do they work?

3) do you have to put oil on yourself?

4) how does it go?

thanks

[catherineyronwode]

1) Any one that appeals to you! We describe them pretty well in the catalogue and on their individual product pages.

Read about them here -- and click the libks to see more on each indivudual book:

http://www.luckymojo.com/mojocatbooks.html#dreambooks

2) We cannot guarantee the success of magic or of prayer. Some of these books have been in print for 75 - 100 years. Obviously people like and continue to use them.

3) No.

4) You use the book to derive numbers from your dreams or from events you see. You can then use these numbers when betting. For a longer description see this HITAP page:

http://luckymojo.com/auntsallys.html

Good luck!

[Mama Micki]

Again, I recommend Kansas City Kitty, which is the most versatile dream book. Not only dreams, but names and birthdays are listed. There are also two-digit numbers for every entry in addition to three-digit numbers, unlike others that only list three-digit numbers.

Aunt Sally's has some dream interpretation, but if all you want are lucky numbers, consult the Kitty.

[Jibrael]

So I bought Aunt Sally's Policy Player Dream Book from LM, as well as the Aunt Sally's Lucky Dream oil. I mostly bought the book for fun, but can't help but try it out for real. I welcome recommendations on how best to use the book, especially with the oil. I read the LM article on Aunt Sally, but would love to hear more personal stories of those who've used these products. I'm not a gambler. But I must admit that my Hoodoo studies make me want to experiment!

Also, (and I'm sorry if this should be a separate thread) but what (if any) other uses outside dreaming lucky numbers are there for Aunt Sally products?

Thanks!

[Mama Micki]

You can use events happening in the real world in addition to dreams to determine your lucky numbers. Aunt Sally's also has some dream interpretation, unlike some other dream books, such as Kansas City Kitty (my favorite).

[Rajah]

I read on the Lucky Mojo page for Aunt Sally's Policy Book that 369 is known as the "dirty gig." I've searched through Aunt Sally's and the closest I can find is 3 and 6 but not 9. Does anyone know if one of the old dream books is the source for 369 being known as the "dirty gig?" Thanks, Rajah

[catherineyronwode]

Rajah,

The dirty gig 3-6-9 is also known as the washerwoman's gig.

Page 12 Dirt 33
Page 13 Dung 60
Page 13 Eating 69 (a double entendre on oral sex)
Page 38 Diarrhoea 60
Page 46 Wash 66
Page 46 Wash-house 39
Page 46 Wash-kettle 30
Page 46 Washer-woman 30
Page 46 Water-can 60
Page 47 Anything filthy 3
Page 48 To dream of any dirty filth, 3 or 9 [in the] 1st [position of a gig]
Page 50 Good Combinations to Play 3, 6, 9, 60, 66 [among others]
Page 66 Back-House 3
Page74 Digging filth 9
Page 75 Diarrhoea 3, 33, 60
Page 79 Filth or Dirt 9, 3, 33

If playing a gig, you only get three digits, hence you would discard zeroes and doubled digits, leading to 3-6-9.

[catherineyronwode]

For more on the use of numerology or "the science of numbers" in policy play and lottery play in the African American community, see the thread on numerology in this forum:

Numerology and the Meaning of Numbers in Hoodoo
numerology-and-the-meanings-of-numbers- ... t7844.html

[Sarafina]

those who use aunt sallys oil..how are you anointiong yourselves with it?

third eye? temples?

[Miss Aida]

Hello, Sarafina,
Although I've never used it, I would imagine that you are correct. It would be applied the same way as psychic vision oil would be.
www.luckymojo.com/auntsallys.html
Try this link to see if there's other tips here: www.luckymojo.com/oils.html
Sorry I couldn't be of much more help to you. BUT it does sound like you are dead on about the applications
Take care

[phoenixrising]

those who use aunt sallys oil..how are you anointiong yourselves with it?

third eye? temples?

Hi Sarafina,

Yes, you would anoint your third eye and temples with the oil (at least that's what I did). You could also use it on a candle. I had great success with a combination of psychic vision, clarity, and Aunt Sally's Lucky dream oils. Be sure to pray or clearly state your intention when you're anointing yourself.

phoenixrising

[Sarafina]

Thanks to both of you

what color candle do you suggest?

[Miss Aida]

Hello, Sarafina!
Here is a picture of the psychic vision spell kit
www.luckymojo.com/spell-psychic-vision.html
The colored candles are in the picture
Take care!

[phoenixrising]

Yes, love the blue and white candles for psychic vision work. I also love the psychic vision vigil candle
http://www.luckymojo.com/candle-psychic-vision.html

[Miss Aida]

Hello, phoenixrising,
Ooooooh! I love this candle! Love the colors and the third eye!
Thanks so much for posting it!!
Take care

[jossy5a]

Greetings to u sir...

I write to know about Lotto spell...

Interpretation of dreams to lotto numbers on daily basis that will manifest on the game...

waiting to hearing from u soonest...

Joseph...

[catherineyronwode]

Hi, jossy5a / Joseph,

We carry an extensive line of dream books for lottery play. You may find them here:

http://www.luckymojo.com/mojocatbooks.html#dreambooks

We also carry work-out and run-down books for "system" players, and they are here:

http://www.luckymojo.com/mojocatbooks.html#rundowns

For gamblers' lucky spells and amuets, see this page of links:

http://luckymojo.com/gamblersluck.html

Good luck.

[Rev Ernest]

It's Facebook Fridays! for November 26, 2021, and we want you lottery players to hit the numbers and win big! The hidden meaning and power of numbers forms the basis for the divinatory science of numerology -- The secret traditional methods to gain advantage through the use of lucky numbers. Dream books specifically designed for lottery play may provide interpretations of dreams (dream divination), but they also have something that other dream books do not have -- lucky numbers for you to bet on, depending on what your dreams reveal. This package also includes 2 rundown books, with convenient and easy-to-use printed tables for Numbers fans who like to bet on "relative" or "associate" numbers, otherwise known as " follow-ups" or numbers that are more likely to follow a winning number the next day.

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* H. P. Dream Book by Professor Uriah Konje (pseudonym of Herbert Gladstone Parris Originally published in 1926; this is a facsimile reprint dated 1980. "Prof. Uriah Konje," a pseudonym of the African American author and publisher Herbert Parris (hence the "H.P." of the title). Three-digit lucky numbers lists include Holidays, 66 pages of dreams (without interpretations), letters of the alphabet, 5 pages of ladies's names, 5 pages of gentlemen's names, natural events, days of the week, months of the year, body parts, garments, states, territories, and cities of the USA, and two important messages addressed "To the Black people of the World" and "To All Oppressed people of the World";
* The "Pick'Em Dream Book" by Rajah Rabo (pseudonym of Carl Z. Talbot). Originally published in the 1950s; this is a facsimile reprint. This dream book is unique in that the Pick'Em system consists of 104 pages of lists of dream keywords with 9 consecutively-numbered selections for variations on the image. The 10th number in the set, deemed a "Special," is picked to play on designated days of the week. The dreams are given interpretations and forecasts. There are also 5 pages of women's names, 4 pages of men's names, and 12 pages of monthly number picks;
* Kansas City Kitty Dream Book by Kansas City Kitty (pseudonym). Originally published circa 1930; this is a facsimile reprint. What sets this dream book apart is the cute artwork on the covers and internal pages. Sections include a 1 page introduction, 12 pages of birthday horoscope numbers, 88 pages of dream keywords, 14 pages of women's names, and 12 pages of men's names. There are no interpretations for the dreams, just sets of number picks. The pen and ink drawings -- depicting scenes in an African American barbershop, lunch counter, small-town neighborhood, and church -- contain lucky numbers attached to almost every surface, so you can bet what you see, and as Rev. I. Doolittle says: "Brethren and Sisters, If ... you MUST play 'em, BOX 'EM";
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[Rev Ernest]

It's Facebook Fridays! for February 3, 2023, and we want you lottery players to hit the numbers and win big! The hidden meaning and power of numbers forms the basis for the divinatory science of numerology -- The secret traditional methods to gain advantage through the use of lucky numbers. Dream books specifically designed for lottery play may provide interpretations of dreams (dream divination), but they also have something that other dream books do not have -- lucky numbers for you to bet on, depending on what your dreams reveal. This package also includes 2 rundown books, with convenient and easy-to-use printed tables for Numbers fans who like to bet on "relative" or "associate" numbers, otherwise known as " follow-ups" or numbers that are more likely to follow a winning number the next day.

The Lucky Mojo Curio Company is holding a random drawing to give away 2 awesome spiritual supply prizes to expand your mind and bring your dreams to life. This week the prizes are the Lucky Number Special book giveaway:
* The Secret of Numbers Revealed: The Magic Power of Numbers" ed. by Godfrey Spencer, catherine yronwode, and Dr. Roy Page Walton;
* H. P. Dream Book by Professor Uriah Konje (pseudonym of Herbert Gladstone Parris Originally published in 1926; this is a facsimile reprint dated 1980. "Prof. Uriah Konje," a pseudonym of the African American author and publisher Herbert Parris (hence the "H.P." of the title);
* The "Pick'Em Dream Book" by Rajah Rabo (pseudonym of Carl Z. Talbot). Originally published in the 1950s; this is a facsimile reprint;
* Kansas City Kitty Dream Book by Kansas City Kitty (pseudonym). Originally published circa 1930; this is a facsimile reprint;
and last but not least:
* Prof. Hitt's Rundowns and Workouts by Prof. E.Z. Hitts (pseudonym of Theodore Becker).

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[IgnacioJ]

Dear Catherine,
I heard a song a few days ago on the 1920s radio network called "Gran'ma Plays the Numbers" by Sy Oliver and his orchestra.

I looked up the song; it was originally recorded by Wynonie Harris, and a version of his song is here: https://youtu.be/m136JOv3z6w.

The Sy Oliver version had a variation on the lyrics which caught my attention. His version can be found here: https://youtu.be/eGHTaV0HVc4.

I was wondering if this song was related to Hoodoo, or just a catchy coincidence? I am positing this question here because I wasn't sure where to post it.

Sincerely,

Ignacio

[catherineyronwode]

Wonderful finds, Ignacio! I will move this to the section of the forum that deals with lucky number dream books!

Playing the numbers, policy, or any illegal lottery exists independently of hoodoo, but there is a link too -- people go to root doctors to get lucky numbers or they get them from dreams or hunches (items seen during daily life), and those are divinatory omens, so they too relate to the spiritual side of life.

[catherineyronwode]

The Ethiopian Dream Book is a rare booklet from Keystone News Services of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The extensive instructional material on crystal gazing is entirely in English, but that tiny subscript -- "Polish Edition" is not a hoax, for the entire core of the book-- the dream interpretations -- is indeed written in the Polish language. The style of the art places it at the latter end of the era from 1870 to 1930, when about 700,000 Poles came to work in Pennsylvania's coal mines and iron factories. I often find Polish editions of herb catalogues from this time period as well.

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[catherineyronwode]

The Ethiopian Dream Book is a rare booklet from Keystone News Services of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The extensive instructional material on crystal gazing is entirely in English, but that tiny subscript -- "Polish Edition" is not a hoax, for the entire core of the book-- the dream interpretations -- is indeed written in the Polish language. The style of the art places it at the latter end of the era from 1870 to 1930, when about 700,000 Poles came to work in Pennsylvania's coal mines and iron factories. I often find Polish editions of herb catalogues from this time period as well.

Check out our freshly made spiritual oils, incense, perfumes, floor washes, and sachet powders, plus the widest selection of magical herbs and roots under one roof. Our entire catalogue is online at luckymojo.com/catalogue — and we sell by mail order, too, both retail and wholesale. (Photo by Catherine Yronwode.)

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[catherineyronwode]

"A Dictionary of 1000 Dreams," the anonymous and probably most-often-reprinted dream book of all time; this edition was copyright and published by Max Stein of Chicago in 1941, but it is a facsimile of text that was first set in the late 19th or very early 20th century.

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[catherineyronwode]

[Anon., as by "The Oracle"]. "Our 1928 Dream Book." "Presented Free with 'Home Companion,' June 2nd, 1928," Harmsworh, 8 pages. This is a fold-and-cut 8-page signature on newsprint that the reader of "Home Companion" was to assemble into booklet form. With it, but not attached, is a two-colour cover. Cover 1 is as shown, and covers 2, 3, and 4 are portions of full-page advertisements from the periodical. Inserted in this booklet as i purchased it was a second and similar dream book, also by "The Oracle" and also a fold-and-cut 8-page booklet on newsprint. This one is titled "Our Holiday Dream Book." It too was "Presented Free with 'Home Companion," but was dated June 29th 1929. My copy lacks the wraparound cover (which it almost certainly had at issue), so the former owner inserted it within the cover of the 1928 booklet. Both booklets are illustrated with excellent pen-and-ink drawings on every page. They both contain lists of dream meanings -- and the lists differ slightly from one booklet to the other. The "Home Companion" was a woman's journal, published by Harmsworh, for a total of 3,079 issues from 1897 through 1956. What appears to be a serial number on the cover (No. 1,632) is of unknown meaning to me, but i suspect it marks the 1,632nd issue of the series. The pseudonymous author known as "The Oracle" may have been a hired writer or, possibly Maud Brown, the editor of the "Home Companion" during the 1920s. Harmsworth, founded by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), also published "The Daily Mirror," "The Daily Mail," "The Observer," "The Times," and many other well-known periodicals.

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[Anon.] "The Great Divine Dream Book Gives Interpretations of Dreams in Numbers of 3 Figures" Martin Publishing Co., New York, 1935. 64 pages.

This is a strange booklet, comprised of several parts, as follows: It opens with a one page introduction to numerology and lucky day-numbers, which will be used to expand upon the dream interpretations. Then follow 8 pages that contain little more than three 3-digit numbers in very large bold type. After this comes a 24-page dream book, in which each dream is given a 3-digit number, and a 15-page list of men's and women's names, each also given a 3-digit number. Two pages of cities and one page of states are next, each with its 3-digit number. The final lists are the week days and the months, both sharing a single pages, each with a 3-digit number.

After this there is an advertisement for a private and personal dream interpretation service which is free to anyone who sends a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Divine Publishing Co., P.O. Box 4, Station O, New York City, N.Y. Then there are two more pages of unexplained large-letter numbers. Next we have a two-page spread of advertisements: Holy Bible Incense from the Holy Incense Co., Department 25-B, 30 Church Street, New York City, on the left, and, on the right, an offer for a numerologist to work out your personal lucky number, based on your name, for free, if you purchase a copy of Black Herman's Dream Book ("the Master-Key Book of 3-digit dream numbers") from The Occult Co., P. O. Box 197, Station F, New York, N. Y.

The next two-page spread features an offer to join The Divine Club, P.O. Box 4, Station O, New York City, and an offer to become an agent and make money selling dream books such as The Great Divine, The Black Herman, The 5 In 1, The Afro, The Hit, and Your Fortune for the Martin Publishing Co., also at P.O. Box 4, Station O, New York City.

The last page contains further book titles, as well price lists for incense such as Mystic Dream, Oriental Lucky Number, and Mourner's Incense; perfumes and sachet powders; your personal horoscope by Professor Kayam, mystic gazing crystals, fortune telling cards, Brother Mizrah's Number Scope, and a variety of oils, such as New Orleans Van Van, Policy Special, Attraction, Quick Luck, and Hot Foot -- all of which could be had from The Divine Company at P.O. Box 4, Station O, New York City. The inside back cover advertised Professor Abdullah's $3.00 Astro-Numerology Chart for any day or any dream, from Professor Abdullah, Department 90A, Box 47, Madison Square Station, New York City.

I have no proof, but given the time period, the style of typesetting, and the book titles and spiritual supplies offered, i am pretty sure that the Martin Publishing company was run by Joe Martin, the pseudonymous brother of Joe W. Kay (born Joseph Spitalnik, 1889–1967) who owned the Empire Publishing Co. and Fulton Religious Supply in New York.

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[Anon.] "Madame Juno's Dream Book and Fortune Teller." Magnus Works, Box 12, Varick Station, New York City, 1886. 128 pages. Despite the title, the cover of this dream book shows a woman telling fortunes with a regular deck of playing cards, using a 7-card rainbow layout. The name of the publisher, Magnus Works, may derive from the fact that this company also published an English translation, "from the German," of the well-known grimoire, "The Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus." Two other ads indicate that they also carried an English version of the German "Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses," and a card deck called "Madame Le Normand's Gipsy Fortune-Telling Cards with English and German Directions."

The book starts with 75 pages of "Dreams and Their Interpretations, and Numbers of the Lottery to Which They Apply." The numbers take the form of three 1 or 2 digit numbers per dream, suitable for playing Policy, the most popular lottery in New York at that time. Then follows 1 page on "Good Combinations" and a "Combination Table" showing how many bets of 2, 3, or 4 numbers can be made by playing from 2 to 20 numbers at a time. After this we find a 2-page instruction set for fortune-telling by dominoes, a 1-page lesson on dice augury, 8 pages on palmistry, 12 pages on reading the placement of moles on the body, 3 pages of prophetic information concerning children born on the various days of a Moon-cycle, and 1 page on the fortunes of children according to the weekday of their birth. The next 10 pages comprise a set of instructions in fortune telling by playing cards, followed by 6 pages setting forth the symbols and meanings found in tea leaves and coffee grounds.

After this, 6 pages present a series of folkloric "Charms and Ceremonies" for seeing the future husband, discovering a thief by sieve and shears, making a dumb cake to predict marriages, and assessing signs for a speedy marriage with a good husband or wife. An unusual mini-oraculum is next, which gives, on 3 pages, 6 possible answers to 5 possible queries concerning marriage chances and fortunate days. The text concludes with 2 pages of "Charms, Spells, and Incantations," including spells worked with keys, a ring, and a green pea-pod, as well as a couple of methods of numerological fortune telling by counting the number of letters in names and dates, dividing by 7, and seeing whether the remainder is odd or even.

Almost all of the methods of fortune telling in this book have been copied from earlier British books of the same type, some of which date back 20 years earlier, to the mid-19th century.

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[catherineyronwode]

[Anon.] "Lucky Dream Book" (cover title), "Gipsy Fortune Teller and Dream Book" (interior title and page header throughout). n.p., n.d, but circa 1886-1896. 32 pages. This booklet is a print-shop chop-job, badly cobbled together from extant typesetting, with broken type and wrongly-numbered pages. The original title page (1) and indica (2) are missing, and the text begins on page 3, with the heading "Gipsy Fortune Teller and Dream Book" which continues as a header on every page up to page 34 (actually page 32), at which point the text breaks off in mid topic. In other words, this is a 32-page signature comprised of pages 3-34 of an earlier book. The fact that there is no publisher given and that the interior title does not match the cover title would seem to indicate that the printer who set the type decided to issue it as a pirated book for a cheap price. The content is very similar to that of "Madame Juno's Dream Book and Fortune Teller," but it is set differently, in a smaller point size with tighter leading, in two columns throughout.

The book starts with 15 pages of "Dreams and Their Interpretations, and Numbers of the Lottery to Which They Apply." The numbers take the form of two 1, 2, 3, or 4 digit numbers per dream, suitable for playing Policy, the most popular lottery in New York at that time. Then follows a "Combination Table" and "When to Play Gigs" (policy combinations). The advice given is play "when the numbers are running" (when lots of wins are being announced) and to "make your play over in the night drawings" (as policy wheels were spun well past midnight in New York); a series of lucky days for play is then given. Half a page (one column) of 4 and 5 number gigs is then presented in the form of a "typesetters' folly" -- a neat zig-zag list of numbers running down the page. The other half of the page is an instruction set for fortune-telling by dominoes. The next page contains a lesson on dice augury and "Curious Traditional Observations" to know the fortune of your future husband and find out the two first letters of a wife's or husband's name, The next page contains the An unusual mini-oraculum is next, which gives 6 possible answers to 5 possible queries concerning marriage chances and fortunate days.

The next 7 pages deal with fortune telling and omens. "Charms, Spells, and Incantations" is first, and at 3 pages, it is more complete than the version in "Madame Juno's Dream Book," for it includes spells to Saint Agnes, Saint Magdalen, a prayer book spell to be undertaken when sleeping in "a strange bed," a nosegay dream spell made with graveyard dirt and Rue, a way to prick a written proposal of marriage with a needle and sleep on it to determine whether it is deceitful or true, how to know your husband's trade, a Christmas spell with mistletoe and alcoholic beverages, a Saint Peter's spell worked with 9 keys, a spells of 3 keys, a green pea-pod spell, and numerological fortune telling by counting the number of letters in names and dates, dividing by 7, and seeing whether the remainder is odd or even. Then come a Valentine spell, a dream spell using fresh Yarrow plucked from a grave, signs to choose a good husband or wife, and the fortunes of children according to the weekday of their birth. "A New Method of Fortune Telling by Cards" (a pack of 28 dealt into 4 stacks of 7, for matrimonial divination) is followed by "The Weather" described as omens, "Signs and Omens" perceived on the body and around the house (itching, tinnitus, stumbling on stairs, a howling dog, a spark on your candle wick), and prophetic information concerning children born on the various days of a Moon-cycle.

Finally there are 2 pages on "Physiological signs," including the classical four temperaments (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholy, 4 pages on "Physiognomy," and 1 page on "Nativity." It is this final entry -- a simplified form of astrology, made with a "Moore's Almanac" for the year of birth -- that marks this dream book as a chop-job, for it abruptly breaks off in June, with Cancer the Crab -- in mid-sentence!

Almost all of the methods of fortune telling in this book have been copied from earlier British books of the same type, some of which date back 20 years earlier, to the mid-19th century.

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Marjah of India [Pseudonym]. "Dream Book by Marjah of India." Self-published at 542 North Sixty-Eighth Street, Seattle, Washington, but "'The World Printed It,' Shenandoah, Iowa" appears on the back cover, referring to the presses of the Shenandoah Daily World newspaper, which was in existence from 1921 -1924, thus dating the booklet. 32 pages.

Marjah of India is shown on page 1 and on the back cover in half-tone, a thin, narrow-faced Anglo-Saxon man in an Indian turban -- thus identifying him as a wandering stage performer who probably worked with a crystal ball and answered sealed questions from the audience. Such entertainers usually stayed over after their performances in small theaters to give private psychic readings and sell crystal balls and books such as this one. Marjah was unusual, though, in that the other books he offered, advertised on both inside covers of this pamphlet, were about sex. They were "Ideal Sexology" by Mary Allen Woodward, M.D., and "Private Lessons in the Cultivation of Sex Force" by an unnamed author, which, when purchased for $2.00, also qualified the buyer to have five private questions about sex answered by Marjah.

Page 1 is a Preface by Marjah, whose old home in Seattle is still standing -- a sweet little Craftsman style cottage on a long, steep hill. Pages 2- 3 contain instructions and two coupon forms to fill out when sending in 50 cents for three questions to be answered. Page 4 is unprinted, being the reverse of the coupons. Page 5 is an application blank to be sent in with $2.00 for a 3-month membership in the Crystal Simla Silence League, which entitled the member to receive an extensive zodiacal reading, instructions for the league, and a private interview with Marjah, "when possible." It should be noted that Marjah's "Simla" Crystal Silence League, just like his turban and stage act, is a direct copy of the original Crystal Silence League founded in 1919 by the stage performer Claude Alexander Conlin, and still in existence today. Page 6, the reverse of the application blank, is unprinted. Pages 7-32 consist of a lengthy, detailed set of dreams and their interpretations, without any lucky numbers, probably copied from an earlier text.

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Madame Le Normand [Pseudonym]. "Madame Le Normand's Fortune Teller and Dream Book," I. & M. Ottenheimer Publishers, Baltimore, Maryland. n.d. 48 pages. This is a compilation of excerpts from 19th century books on omens, divination, and dream interpretation. I. and M. Ottenheimer published quite a few lottery dream books and fortune telling texts, most of them from older German or english sources. There is no copyright date on this saddle-stitched pamphlet but it is identifiably from the late 19th century, judging by the style of typesetting and the contents.

Page one is the title page and page 2 is blank. Pages 3 and 4 are a small oraculum titled "Fortune Telling Tablets" that produces 25 results. Palmistry takes up the next 2 pages, and is followed by 1 page on reading moles. The fortunes of children born under every day during a lunar cycle is about 2 pages long; then comes "Charms, Spells, and Incantations" on about 7 pages, including domestic magic for the Fast of St. Anne's, "The Ring and Olive Branch," Sleeping in a "Strange Bed," "The Nine Keys," "The Witches' Chain," and so forth. Then follows a 3 page segment on "Physiognomy," and a 3 page numerology instruction titled "How to Tell a Person's Character by Means of Cabalistic Calculation." "Fortune-Telling by the Grounds in a Tea or Coffee Cup takes up 2 pages, and fortune telling "By Dice" covers both a two-dice and a three-dice method on 1 page.

"The Moon" is a 1 page series of systems for calculating lucky and unlucky dates by a more or less random set of linked "if-then" occurrences, few of which actually involve the Moon. After this, "Fortune Telling by Cards" is more to the point, with 17 solid pages of methods, including "Dealing the Cards by Sevens," "Dealing the Cards by Fifteens," "The Italian Method," and "Past, Present, and Future" -- all popular layouts in the 19th century. Finally, after all of that, we get to the actual section on "Dreams and Their Interpretations," which occupies 5 pages. It is highly unusual, being divided, without sub-headings, into dreams of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, fish, fruit trees, garden flowers vegetables, and grain crops, each species specifically named and none listed in alphabetical order. To find your dream in this booklet, you would have to be familiiar with biological taxonomy! There are no dreams listed for minerals, man-made objects, or people. The final 2 pages are blank.

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Mother Shipton [pseudonym[. "Mother Shipton's Deam Book and Complete Fortune Teller with Their Lucky Numbers." Henry J. Wehman, New York. 1890. 64 pages.

Mother Shipton (1488-1561), to whom this book is ascribed, was born Ursula Southeil and became a popular English soothsayer and prophetess. She lived in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and is said to have predicted the great fire of London, the coming of the Spanish Armada, and an outbreak of the black plague. As her mother, Agatha Southeil, was not married and refused to name Ursula's father, both mother and daughter were shunned by the townspeople and took up residence in a local cave, where a deep pool was said to assist Ursula's talent for scrying. Agatha was sent to a nunnery, where she died shortly thereafter. Ursula married a carpenter from York named Tobias Shipton, but he also died young, leaving her a widow. She came to be known as Mother Shipton and people travelled great distances to consult with her, receive her remarkably accurate predictions, and obtain the herbal remedies she made. The first account of her life and prophecies was published in 1641, eighty years after her death. The cave where she lived is maintained as a monument to her and it contains a sculpture of her within. None of that has anything to do with this late 19th century American pamphlet, nor, despite the title, was she a "Gipsy" (Roma woman).

The inside front cover is an advertisement for "The Wizard's Manual: Secrets of Black Art, Ventriloquism, and Hypnotism," consisting of simple stage magic that a bright child or teenager could perform. Pages 1 and 2 are the title page and indicia. Pages 3-17 contain 15 pages of "Dreams and Their Interpretations, and Numbers of the Lottery to Which They Apply." The numbers take the form of two 1, 2, 3, or 4 digit numbers per dream, suitable for playing Policy, the most popular lottery in New York at that time. Then follows a "Combination Table" and "When to Play Gigs" (policy combinations). The advice given is play "when the numbers are running" (when lots of wins are being announced) and to "make your play over in the night drawings" (as policy wheels were spun well past midnight in New York); a series of lucky days for play is then given. Half a page (one column) of 4 and 5 number gigs is then presented in the form of a "typesetters" folly -- a neat zig-zag list of numbers running down the page. The other half of the page is an instruction set for fortune-telling by dominoes. The next page contains a lesson on dice augury and "Curious Traditional Observations" to know the fortune of your future husband and find out the two first letters of a wife's or husband's name. An unusual 1-page mini-oraculum follows, which gives 6 possible answers to 5 possible queries concerning marriage chances and fortunate days.

The next 7 pages deal with fortune telling and omens. "Charms, Spells, and Incantations" is first, and at 3 pages, it is more complete than the version in "Madame Juno's Dream Book," for it includes spells to Saint Agnes, Saint Magdalen, a prayer book spell to be undertaken when sleeping in "a strange bed," a nosegay dream spell made with graveyard dirt and Rue, a way to prick a written proposal of marriage with a needle and sleep on it to determine whether it is deceitful or true, how to know your husband's trade, a Christmas spell with mistletoe and alcoholic beverages, a Saint Peter's spell worked with 9 keys, a spells of 3 keys, a green pea-pod spell, and numerological fortune telling by counting the number of letters in names and dates, dividing by 7, and seeing whether the remainder is odd or even. Then come a Valentine spell, a dream spell using fresh Yarrow plucked from a grave, signs to choose a good husband or wife, and the fortunes of children according to the weekday of their birth. "A New Method of Fortune Telling by Cards" (a pack of 28 dealt into 4 stacks of 7, for matrimonial divination) is followed by "The Weather" described as omens, "Signs and Omens" perceived on the body and around the house (itching, tinnitus, stumbling on stairs, a howling dog, a spark on your candle wick), and prophetic information concerning children born on the various days of a Moon-cycle.

There are 2 pages on "Physiological signs," including the classical four temperaments (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholy, 4 pages on "Physiognomy," and 2 pages on "Nativity,' a simplified form of astrology, made with a "Moore's Almanac" for the year of birth. "Love Presents and Witching Spells,' "How to Obtain Happiness and Affluence," and "How to Make a Dumb Cake" take up one page; followed by 2 pages on how to read moles; 3 pages on various layouts for card reading; a 9-page version of "The Oraculum or Napoleon Bonaparte's Book of Fate," with 16 answers for each of 16 questions; 2 pages on "Fortune Telling with the Grounds of a Coffee or Tea Cup;" and 1 page of "Dreams, Tokens, and Insights into Futurity," such as "The Ring and Olive Branch" and a spell made with a love letter one has received. Next, 2 pages are given over to Observations Concerning Birds and Beasts" and "Fortunate Days, weeks, and Months." This is followed by 1 page on "How to Receive Oracles by Dreams," a series of 4 "Charms" or herbal and folkloric magic spells, and 2 pages on "Palmistry" and "Fingernail Observations." The final text page is a series of methods to increase one's proficiency at "Divination," such as by fasting, and an odd little "Traditional Way to Baffle Your Enemies." The booklet closes with 2 pages of advertisements for non-fiction Western books about Buffalo Bill, the Younger Brothers, the James Brothers, Rube Burrow, The Dalton Brothers, and Tracy, King of Bandits. The inside back cover advertises "The 6th and 7th Books of Moses or Moses' Magical Spirit Art." The back cover lists 48 of "The Latest and Best Joke Books on the Market," plus "The Gipsy Dream Book," of which this book is a variant-covered duplicate. All of the books were published by Wehman, but are sold through the Royal Novelty Company, South Norwalk, Connecticut.

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"Dr. Mac Donald's Astrological Dream Book: A Comprehensive and Scientific System for the Interpretation of Dreams" by J. [Jeremiah] Mac Donald, M.D., Ph.D. Atlas Printing Co., Binghampton, N.Y. Circa 1921 - 1954 in various editions, 2018 reprint by Forgotten Books. 64 pages.

I will have a problem in describing this book, since the several editions contain different material within the same cover. My copy is circa 1939. There is no title page and no indicia. Page 1 is an "Introduction" about dreams. Page 2 begins a unique system of "Explanations of Dreams and Visions." These arE taxonomized rather than alphabetized, and the list runs through page 24, with sub-headings for Fire; Air; Celestial Fire; Water; Navigation; The Earth; Flowers; Herbs, Culinary and Medicinal; Wheat and Other Grains; Trees and Their Fruits; Birds and Insects; Reptiles and Fish; Quadrupeds; Childbirth; Decapitation; Wounds; The Hair; The Forehead; The Ears; The Color of the Face; The Eyes; The Nose; The Cheeks; The Mouth; The Lips; The Teeth; The Beard; The Shoulders; The Neck; Horned Heads; The Breast and Bosom; The Arms; The Thighs; The Hands; The Nails; The Knees; The Legs; The Feet; The Flesh in General; Garments and Apparel; The External Afflictions; Drunkards; Games and Pastimes; Singing, Musical Instruments, and Comedy; Running; Capital Punishment; Funeral Ceremonies, Death, and the Grave; Celestial and Religious Matters; The Sun; Moon and stars; Infernal Matters; Miscellaneous Dreams; and a Note.

An alphabetized dream dictionary occupies 18 pages and is followed by The Astrology of Herbs on 1 page. Signs and Omens take up 1 page, Astrological Notes comprises 2 pages, Significations of Moles is on 1 page, and after that comes Astrology and Astrology the Gateway to Success, with a short advertisement for the "new edition" of Mac Donald's "Secrets of Astrology Revealed."

Next come 2 pages titled A Little Bit of Humor, consisting of short jokes. After that there is 1 page on Science of Kissing, Eye Flirtation, Hat Flirtation, To Let Maidens or Widows Dream of the Man They Are to Marry, and a method To Make the Court Cards Always Come Together in a deck of cards. The next page covers Birthdays (of the week), Gems Symbolic of the Month, Wedding Anniversaries, and Seven Sundays Each Week. Then follows a 1-page advertisement for Mac Donald's Farmers' Astrological Almanac, with an engraving of Dr. Mac Donald, a bearded man of middle age. A third and different page of Astrological Notes and a second and different page of Signs and Omens are followed by a single page of advertisements for 1930s-era "new best-sellers." such as the "King Tut Dream Book Policy Player" (circa 1920s), "Black Herman" (before 1935), "The 7 Keys to Power" by Lewis DeClaremont (circa 1938) and "Madame Fu Futtam's Magical-Spiritual Dream Book" (circa 1938). Several divination systems are given on 1 page: Dice, The Luck of Nail-Cutting, Weekdays and Their Meanings, Fortune Telling by Dominoes, and Fortune Telling by the Grounds of a Tea or Coffee Cup. An advertising page presents Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards (30 cards, with 2 lucky numbers per card) and Egyptian Fortune Telling Cards (79 cards with 7 lucky numbers per card), plus what seems to be an oraculum, described as "a booklet of 32 pages that contains 116 questions ... with 587 answers." The next page advertises two books on "Good Letter Writing." This is followed by 1 page advertising Bible Specials, The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, Albertus Magnus, and Crystal Gazing by The Zancigs (circa 1926). The next page advertises "Solar Biology" by Hiram Erastus Butler (1841 - 1916). Cover 3 is an advertisement for Dr. Mac Donald's Atlas Compound, a laxative. This lone medical product, when compared to the many herbal medicines offered in earlier editions, shows just how fat the U. S. Food and Drug Administration had come in their program of destroying herbalism and folk medicine. The back cover advertises Mac Donald's Farmers' Almanac and Weather Guide for 25 cents a copy.

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[Anon. "Queen of Gipsies' Dream Book and Fortune Teller." Wehman Bros., 712 Broadway, New
York 3, N.Y., 1922. square-bound in paper wraps. 96 pages.

Cover art by H. C. Rost [1862 - c. 1930], (signed). Cover 2 is an advertisement for 30 different titles on divination, metaphysics, and occultism. Because the original publication of some of these dates to the mid-1930s, i believe that my copy is a 1938 reprint. The interior typesetting seems to date to 1922, as stated, but the content of the dream book is far older.

Page 1 is the title page, with date. Page 2, rather than the usual indicia or copyright notice, is an advertisement for Madame Le Normand's Fortune Telling Cards. 3 through 65 are dream interpretations with no lottery numbers. These have obviously been copied from a pre-1863 text because included is a lengthy and extremely disturbing entry on "Slave" ("... to dream that a favorite slave has become ungrateful and run away [... to dream] that one of your favorite negroes has become impertinent [...] someone will try to injure you through the medium of your slaves [...] therefore, look sharp to the characters of white people around." etc.) [Sorry, but this really does help date the plagiarized original text, which was published here in 1922, fully 59 years AFTER the end of slavery in America!]

Pages 66 - 78 comprise the Mystic Circle Fortune-Telling Oracle, an oraculum of 70 questions with 700 answers. The Cabalistic Table of Hebrew-style numerology follows on page 79 and supplies a one-word outcome for the reduced numbers 1-100, 100-900 (by 100s), and 1000-4000 (by thousands). How to Determine the Lucky and the Unlucky Days of Any Month in the Year is on page 80. The "Matters of Love" mini-oraculum (5 questions with 6 answers each), takes up 2 pages."Astrology" runs from pages 83 to 89, and gives Sun-sign characteristics through the zodiac (oddly, beginning with Aquarius) plus descriptions of the influences of the planets -- but not the Sun, and not Uranus (discovered in 1781) or Neptune (discovered in 1846). One page covers "To Know if You are Long-Lived by measuring a specific ratio on your skull and "Discovering Truth From Falsehood" by name and birthdate numerology reduced to an odd or even number. "Fortune aelling by the Crystal" is 2 pages long, "Palmistry is 3 pages long, and Fortune Telling by Dice concludes the book on page 96. Cover 3 advertises 25 books on divination, occultism, and metaphysica, the most recent of which was published in 1946, again confirming that this is a later reprint of the 1922 book -- and perpetuating that ugly "Slave" dream entry more than 80 years after Emancipation! Cover 4 advertises another 24 occult metaphysical books, including "Secrets of the Psalms," "The 6th and 7th Books of Moses," "The Guiding Light to Power and Success," and "Black Herman."

Because there is confusing and incorrect information all over the internet that conflates the artist of this Dream Book cover, H C. Rost, with another New York engraver of about the same time period, E.C. Rost, i spent about 4 hours researching H. C. Rost through Ancestry.com (for which privilege i thank my cousin, Dr. Jeremy Weiss) and i have constructed a timeline of his activities as an artist, etcher, engraver, painter, and printer from 1898-1925, available on request.

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[Anon.] [As by "Ali Baba."] "Ali Baba's Mystic Dream Book [cover.] "What Your Dream Meant: A Complete Dictionary of Dreams and Their Meanings" [title page.] Regan Publishing Corporation, 77 W. Washington St., Chico, Illinios. Paper wraps ("Regan Hand-Book Series"), 96 actual pages, with an unusual pagination scheme, explained below. Undated, but after 1922.

Page 1 is the title page, and right out of the box we can see that this is a re-covered variant of the book "What Your Dream Meant." Page 2, the indicia, is blank, with no copyright notice or date. From pages 3 through 86 there are dream interpretations, each accompanied by lottery numbers of 1 or 2 digits, either singular or in groups of 2, 3, or 4 numbers. The dreams are older than the publication, for although the typesetting is 20th century, we have no entry for automobile or car or truck, but we do have entries for carriage, cart, stage-coach, and railroad, and several entries that mention horses and horseback riding. There are no pre-Civil War entries (such as the tell-tale "slave"), but also no 20th century entries, such as cinema, movies, or talking pictures. The entries have a distinctly British cast to them, with interpretations for gibbet and yeoman, and mention of "a pretty chambermaid or milkmaid."

What should have been page 87 is, surprisingly, numbered as page 3, and from there to the end, the pages are all advertisements for books, taken from a larger catalogue, for they are numbered 3, 9, 12, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 32. Each page deals with a different topic, as follows:

Page 3 [page 87] is a grouping of books on astrology, Spiritualism, and mediumship by Mrs. Cecil Cook and Lloyd Kenyon Jones. Cook and Jones were located in Chicago, and i own these books, all of them circa 1902-1903, with subsequent reprints. Page 9 [page 88] offers books on mathematics and an encyclopedia of gasoline engines. The latter is said to contain an updated supplement on "The Ford and Packard automobiles," which gives us a date of "after 1903" (Packard's first car came out in 1899, Ford's first was in 1903). Page 12 [page 89] offers history, genetics, opium addiction, and critiques of the trusts (large corporations). Page 14 [page 90] continues the trust-busting journalism, listing 18 books by the muck-raking journalist and political novelist Upton Sinclair (and all highly recommended by the present bibliographer!). The titles range from "The Jungle" (1906) through "The Fasting Cure" (1911) and "King Coal" (1917) to "They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming" (1922). Page 15 [page 91] compiles a set of dictionaries and Bibles. Page 20 [page 92] is titled "Business Betterment Books" and is aimed at salesmen and accountants. Page 21 [page 93] is "Dreams, Fortune Telling, Recitations, Humor" and starts with "What your Dream Meant" (the book that this is, with a re-made cover) for 35 cents, followed by "Ali Baba's Mystic Dream Book" (this very book!) for 25 cents, and "Ali Baba's Fortune Teller" (contents unknown) for 25 cents. Also in this group is "Albertus Magnus." Page 22 [page 94] provides the promised recitations and humor -- both patriotic and in various dialects, as was the style of the time. Page 23 [page 95] is a grab-bag of stage plays for young performers, books on crystal gazing, and actual glass crystal balls "imported from Czecho-Slovakia," a nation that came into existence in 1918.

Page 32 [Page 96] is unexpected for a publisher in Chicago -- it offers four books about California, including a biography of the outlaw Joaquin Murietta, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies "printed on hand-made paper." (This is self-stated to be a translation from Spanish, and it is thus probably a version of the fictionalized 1854 biography of Murietta by the Cherokee author John Rollin Ridge ("Yellow Bird") which had indeed been translated into Spanish but had fallen out of print in English after Ridge, the first editor of the Sacramento Bee newspaper, died in 1867 in Grass Valley, California.) Also on this page is a listing for "A California Cook Book," which, oddly enough, happens to have first been catalogued by my mother, Liselotte Glozer, in her ground-breaking bibliography, "California in the Kitchen" (Glozer's Booksellers, Berkeley, California, 1960). In the book world, "A California Cook Book" is known as "Glozer 347." I helped my mother with that bibliographic project and i remember this cook book well, with its sweet Art Nouveau cover of a slender young woman improbably holding a soup ladle among the blooming tulips, and its startling chapter on "Favorite Kosher Dishes," contributed by San Francisco Jewish matrons, whom my mother identified as some of our not-so-distant relatives. Once catalogued and published, the "Glozer Collection" of early California cook books was sold to UCLA, where i hope it still resides in the Department of Special Collections. It was my mother's cheerfully literary approach to compiling bibliographies that you, dear reader, may be enjoying even now, and it was her scrupulous librarianship that led her to take the time to date-range undated books by observing their type fonts and dating the advertisements they included. And that, of course, allows me to assign to "Ali Baba's Mystic Dream Book" a date of "after 1922 ... but not by very much." Let's call it "circa 1923, from a pre-1900 text."

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[Anon.] "Woman's Weekly Dream Book" "Supplement to Woman's Weekly, October 3, 1953." 16 pages, no wraps. Printed in England by the Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London. "6473." (This is probably the serial number of the issue of Woman's Weekly it was issued with.)

This little inclusion to a weekly periodical stands out due to the elaborate and delicate pen and ink art on the cover. The style certainly marks it for an intended female audience, but what is remarkable to me is how deliberately "old fashioned" it is for 1953, with the sleeping princess of a woman on an upholstered and pillowed divan, framed by two rococco pillars topped by porcelain vases of flowers, and backed by a towering floral wreath on a pillar from which yards and yards of dainty netting are draped. This fabulous fantasy confection is signed "B.Y.," a pair of initials i sadly do not recognize.

There is no title page or indicia. Simple and to the point, with no interior illustrations, the list of dream images and their interpretations begins sharply on page 2 with "Abandon" and runs alphabetically through to "Zoo" on page 15. Thereafter, on pages 15 and 16, we have a classic set of omens and signs for things observed in waking life, titled "Are You Superstitious? Some Amusing Meanings That Will Intrigue You, But Don't Take Them Seriously." The omens are also listed alphabetically, from "Apple" ("a proposal if you are single, and a child if you are married") through "Vest" ("If you put on your vest inside out -- do not change it for it means good luck"). And there you have it; a dream book with no lottery numbers presented in two sturdy columns per page of nicely set type, and a cover from out of this world.

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[Anon.] "Your Birthday Dream Book: Your Lucky Dream Number in Three Figures, Including Full Interpretation of What Your Dream Means." Mutuel Publishing Co. 617 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pa. No date, circa 1936-1939; My copy bears no copyright date and no advertisements, but clues to the publication date come from the style of the cover art and typesetting, and the dream topics listed (or not listed). Another copy offered for sale was said to be copyright 1939 by Mutuel Publishing of Youngstown, Ohio. 64 pages, paper wraps.

The title of this book is misleading, as there is nothing at all in the text that relates to birthdays or signs of the zodiac. What we have is a very bare, stripped-down dream book for gamblers, with only minimal attention paid to dream interpretations.

There is no title page and no indicia. The text begins on page 1 and is a single page of text affirming that "dreams are the state of the sub-conscious mind" and "every dream has a meaning." Furthermore, this book "if consulted regularly, will accurately give you the coming day's number." Plus, "if your dream gives you a certain number play that number till you dream again and you will realize many hits."

Pages 2 through 16 contain dreams with short interpretations and a 3-digit number for each dream. No 19th century topics are mentioned, and we do have "automobile," "railroad," and "telephone," so this is a modern and up-to-date dream list. From page 17 through page 61 hundreds of dreams are listed with no interpretations at all, but each with its 3-digit number. This compilation contains a number of unusual and unexpected dream images, among them "chirography," "habeus corpus," "homeopathy," "opium," "rupee," "showcards," "wildwoman," and 'yellow fever." Pages 62 through 64 contain a list of Women's Names and a list of Men's Names. And that is it. End of book.

The Mutuel Publishing Co. published and sold lottery dream books through the 20th century. As the content makes clear, the customer base was not interested in spiritual development so much as in playing games of chance. This book gave them what they wanted. The old building at 1617 Cherry Street, in what was once a thriving area of small businesses, was demolished in the name of "urban renewal," and the entire area is now just a wasteland of box-like office spaces and parking lots. Only the African American Museum in Philadelphia, one block down and around the corner on Arch Street, tries to keep the memories of this neighborhood -- and the African diasporic experience in general -- alive.

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[Dr. Harter] "Dr. Harter's Dream Book." The Dr. Harter Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. Circa 1889. 32 pages, paper wraps, illustrated.

This pocket-sized dream book is a mix of dream interpretations, floriography, palmistry, birthstone lore, and love spells, interleaved with advertisements and testimonials for Dr. Harter's herbal-mineral based medicines, including German Vermifuge Candy, Wild Cherry Bitters, and Iron Tonic. The testimonials scattered throughout the booklet are dated, which helps us date the item itself, and they range from 1878 to 1888, so i have assigned this booklet to the year 1889.

The cover art is a composite of images. A woman sits in a chair, reading a book, while above her, in the clouds, a couple is being married by a pastor. Behind, beside, and over her is a crescent Moon, a garland of flowers, and an Owl. The Moon is marked "Dr. Harter's" and "Trade Mark" and the Owl sits in the initial "D" of the words "Dream Book." Beneath the Owl, inside the letter "D" is some sort of smiling sprite or leprechaun, who tips his hat at the viewer. Below this is a landscape, titled "Tam O'Shanter's Ride," based on the poem "Tam O'Shanter," written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790. In this image, Tam O'Shanter and his horse Meg gallop over the stone bridge of Doon by the abandoned church and graveyard at Alloway, as he looks back in terror at three female witches who fly through the air in pursuit and have seized the tail of the mare.

Cover 2 lists Dr. Harter's medicines, of which there are 12. Page 1 is an advertisement for Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic. Pages 2-4 contain a brief illustrated guide to "Palmistry." Page 5 is an advertisement for Dr. Harter's Little Liver Pills. Pages 6 and 7 comprise a monograph on "Dreams," illustrated with an engraving titled "Gen. XLI: 14, 15" -- in which Joseph interprets Pharaoh's troubling dream. Page 8 is an advertisement for Dr, Harter's Lung Balm. Pages 9 through 24 contain the dream book proper, with short interpretations and no lottery numbers. It is a bit old-fashioned for its era (no "railroad" or "steamship"), but is also not patterned on a British original (no "abbey" or "gibbet"), and it concludes with an advertisement for Dr. DuChoine's Nerve Pills.

Page 25 gives us customs of the New Moon, a spell employing a love letter as a personal concern, and a recipe for a love potion. Pages 26-27 contain "The Language of Flowers," a short work on floriography. This is followed by the "The Language of Gem Stones," which is attributed to the Tiffany Jewelry Co., and covers the topic of birthstones on pages 27-28. An advertisement for "family medicines" follows, and page 29 also presents a grouping of "Riddles." Pages 30-32, as well as cover 3, consist of advertisements for medicines that ameliorate female irregularities, menopause, kidney disorders, and gout.

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[Anon.] "Gypsy Witch Dream Book and Policy Player's Guide Containing a Complete Alphabetical List of Dreams with Their Lucky Numbers Including Birthdays and Their Significance. Unlucky Days, Rules for Learning Saddles, Gigs and Horses in Any Given Row of Numbers and What Amount They Will Bring. Combination Tables, Etc."

1902 First Edition "Copyrigt 1902 by Frederick J. Drake & Co., Chicago, Ill. U.S.A." Hardcover, red cloth binding, title in black and white lettering, plus a black silhouette image of a long-haired Gypsy With holding a stick and dancing wildly before an audience of six cats seated in a semi-circle. 208 pages.

1920s-1940s reprint, n.d, n.p., but "Printed in the U.S.A." in paper wraps with a red and black cover illustration of a woman with achondroplastic dwarfism dressed as a Welsh witch in an 18th century style dress with panniers. 208 pages. The pagination is off by 2 digits at the beginning, due to the typesetter having counted the front wrap as 2 pages. For this reason it is numbered up to 209, with a blank page 210 plus a black back wrap.

Page 1 is the title page, and page 2 is the indicia. The dreams, their interpretations, and listings of lucky numbers for each dream begin on page 3 and conclude on page 190. Lucky numbers for "Gentlemen's Names" and "Ladies' Names" take up only a page and a half, on pages 194 and 195. Then follow short entries with groups of lucky numbers for playing cards, "Days of the Week," "Days of the Month," and "Holidays" through page 197, which concludes with "Unlucky Days" and "Lucky Days" for gambling during each month. Pages 198 and 199 cover "Birthdays and Their Significance, with no betting numbers. From the bottom third of page 199 through page 205 there are mathematical tables for calculating odds and payout rates for the game of Policy. Pages 206-207, printed sideways, are titled "Bung Loo," and give odds for that game. Pages 208 and 209, also printed sideways, contain the "Gypsy Witch Rate Sheet 12-78 Ballot and Policy Guide," showing odds and payouts for various combination bets. Page 210 (actually page 208) is blank and not numbered, and covers 3 and 4 are blank.

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[nagasiva]

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[nagasiva]

[Anon.] "The Star Series of Egyptian Dream Book" Whitman Publishing Company, Racine Wisconsin, n.d., side-stapled in paper wraps, 64 pages.

There is no copyright date on this small paperbound book. The awkward title derives from its application to ten titles, including "The Star Series of 145 Parlor Games," "The Star Series of 1000 Conundrums and Riddles," "The Star Series of Selected Vaudeville Jokes," and so forth. The other nine books are reproduced in black-plate-only in a 3-by-3 grid on both inside covers, and named by title on the back cover. The dating is complicated by the fact that the Star Series books are similar to the small books published and copyright in 1908 by Wehman Bros. -- including Wehman's "145 Parlor Games" and "Egyptian Dream Book" -- but although this book looks like an updated Wehman Bros. title of an earlier decade, neither the art nor the text are copies of the Wehman Bros. "Egyptian Dream Book."

Whitman began publishing books for children in 1915, and i estimate that the clothing of the women depicted on the other Star Series titles points to a date range from 1920-1923, when slim lines, flattened bosoms, waist-belts, mid-calf hems, upswept hair, and structured hats were popular.

The cover art depicts a woman in an early 20th century Arabic "harem girl" fantasy costume, asleep on a divan, with a nightstand beside her and, through her window, a view of clustered minarets emerging from a pink cloud. It is signed "G' in a distinctive triangular form -- an initial i have seen on other Whitman publications. The colouring is typical of Whitman's high reproduction standards for four-colour printing, precise and in-register, using the limited Y-R-B palette of comic books of the era.

Page 1 is the title page. Page 2, sans copyright, declares that the book was "Printed by Western Printing and Lithographing Co., Racine, Wisconsin. Printed in U.S.A." That's no surprise, as Whitman was the creative arm of Western Printing, or, vice versa, Western was the printing arm of Whitman Publishing. Page 3 bears the heading "The Key to All Dreams," and from there to page 64 we have a block of tightly typeset dream interpretations, with no lucky betting numbers. It appears to me that the typesetter ran out of room on page 64, because there are no entries for the letters X or Y, and the entry for Z consists only of "Zinc," without the usual "Zodiac" or "Zoo."

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Franklin D. Martini (as "Martini the Palmist"). "What Your Dream Meant: A Collection of Dreams Based on Modern Psychology and the Working of the Subjective Mind, Dreams That Have Actually Been Verified in Hundreds of Cases." I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publishers, Baltimore, Maryland. 1906. 192 pages.

The edition shown here is the second printing; the first printing has the same navy blue art, but the title lettering is in red against a white background. The cover depicts a complex montage of ideas: A large owl embraces an egg-shape crystal ball within its wings, and within the crystal is a woman asleep in her bed, against a starlit sky with a waning crescent Moon, who seems to envision a path that leads to a multi-tiered, towering castle. The crystal egg is balanced on a faceted stand, in front of which is a spread-winged bat and a symmetrically matching pair of banded snakes waving their heads in the air.

The publishers, I. and M. Ottenheimer, released an extensive list of books. According to Harry B. Weiss's "A Brief History of American Jest Books" (The Bulletin of The New York Public Library, April 1943), "This firm started in the publishing business in 1890 and has published over 100 different titles of joke books [...] in addition to books on self-taught Spanish and Italian, fortune-telling, boxing, letter writing, dreams, hypnotism, how to become beautiful, etc. Nearly all have copyright dates. Some, according to their title pages, were edited by Irv. Ott or Moe Ott who are, of course, Irving and Moe [Moses] Ottenheimer. The sales [...] were tremendous during the first world war, but dropped off after 1929. Between them, these two firms [I. and M. Ottenheimer and their major competitor Wehman Bros. of New York City] supplied the public for many years with enormous numbers of jest books" ... and occult books as well.

Cover 2 advertises "The 6th and 7th Books of Moses." Page 1 is the title page, and page 2 contains a short poem found also in "The Universal Fortune Teller":
“To dream of seeing strange apparitions
As devils, hobgoblins, and such visions
Does show thy love, or thy sweetheart
Hath a fair face but devil’s heart.”

Pages 3-6 comprise the "Preface." "A Few Facts" taken from 1903-1904 newspaper accounts of true dreams occupy pages 7-8. Pages 9 through 173 contain an excellent alphabetical list of dream meanings with no lucky numbers, neatly typeset. Pages 174 through 178 contain the "Appendix," with "Signs and Omens" derived from body itches, things seen on the street or in the home, and dream self-induction. Page 179 is an advertisement for personal palmistry readings by Franklin D. Martini, the author, at 1404 Penrose Ave., Atlantic City, N.J. Pages 180 through 184 are ads for other I. & M. Ottenheimer books, and pages 185-192 are blank. Covers 3 and 4 also contain advertisements for Ottemheimer books.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



"The Dream Book Bibliography, Part One at YIPPIE," is the first episode in what we can all only assume will be my stab at a creating a lushly illustrated Dream Book cover gallery and annotated bibliography series, hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology. The books come from my collection, the scanning and cleanup of the art have been a joint project spearheaded with my husband nagasiva, and the write-ups of the books are my own take on what makes each title different from another. This is a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing and research. I greatly appreciate the support, because no one is paying much for popular culture academia projects these days except you, my dear friends, fans, and fellow-travellers. When AI takes over the world and history becomes fiction, you can stand proud and tell your grandchildren, "I sent cat and nagasiva $8.00 per month to scan and catalogue dream books." And your grandkids will reply, "What's a dream book, Grandy?" And you will reply, "Well, Kiddo, i'm not really sure anymore. It was something people made 'way, way back, before before.'"

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Prof. Noi Ram [Marion Van Walker, Jr.] "The Back Cat Dream Book: A Million-Dollar Dream Book, The Fullfillment [sic] of a True Vision Dream by Prof. Noi Ram World's Foremost Numerologist; 'Hits Like the Brown Bomber!'" The Black Cat Publishing Co., P. O. Box 123, College Station, New York 30, N. Y. Copyright 1937. 104 pages plus frontispiece; paper wraps.

Well, as you can see, the Professor's name, Noi Ram, is his actual first name, Marion, spelled backwards, and spelling is not his long suit. The cover art is unsigned, which is a shame, because it is delightful, with its strangely watchful tuxedo cat in a winged escutcheon surmounting an Asian-style coin on which we see twin palm trees surrounding a stupa-like temple in front of which sits a massive statue of a deity, king, or guru. All this and a cute bit of word-play that links lucky betting hits with blows landed by the famous African-American boxer Joe Louis, who was known as "The Brown Bomber."

Cover 2 lists 7 "Old and New Dreams That Came True," from "The Dream of Pharoh [sic] of Egypt" to "The Dream of Joe Louis." Six 3-digit numbers are also displayed, and a note that my copy is from the "Fifth Printing." Opposite this is a photographic frontispiece on white clay-coat paper depicting Prof. Noi Ram as a stage magician, a bejewelled African-American man in a black tuxedo and a white turban, holding a crystal ball. He is wearing a large metal disk as a pendant, and it is the same coin as that on the front cover. The verso of the frontispiece is blank. The title page announces this as a "New Revised Edition."

Pages 2 and 3 are advertisements for the book's distributor, the Youngstown News Agency of 31 Walnut Street, Youngstown, Ohio, and for the publisher. Page 4 explains that The Black Cat Dream Book "is a fulfillment of a TRUE VISION DREAM ... and occupies a place much higher than all other books of its kind in many respects." On Page 5 Prof. Noi Ram provides the back story, the "Original Dream of the Black Cat Dream Book":

"In the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-one, it was at this appointed time that I had this dream. I saw the vision of this book. Upon the cover was the name printed, "The Black Cat Dream Book." The book itself was new. I heard a voice saying these exact words: 'Behold this book my son and make it's [sic] likeness plentiful among thy brethren, for it will help thee and them,' And now you have before your very eyes 'The Black Cat Dream Book' designed identical [sic] as it was seen in a vision. Personally endorsed by Prof. Noi Ram." His name appears in signature form.

Pages 6 through 95 contain a long list of dreams, with no interpretations and one 3-digit number per dream. Pages 96 through 101, sub-titled "Your Name Is the Pride of Your Fortune," contain a list of every possible two-letter combination for first and last names, from A.A. and A.B. through Z.Y. and Z.Z., each with a unique 3-digit betting number. This is truly unique among dream books. Page 102, the "Astrological Zodiac," gives 18 3-digit numbers for each sign of the zodiac. Page 103 provides a 3-digit number for each of the United States, at that time 48 in number. Page 104 is a advertisement for "The Black Cat Weekly Card," a betting card, which presents us with the conclusion that Marion Van Walker, Jr. was both a stage magician and a bookie.

Cover 3 is "A Prayer for Help," too lengthy to quote in full, which mentions many of the tools and techniques of hoodoo, including deliverance from "crossed roads" through the use of incense, dreams, a Spiritual Key, Magic Stone, and Lodestone to "magnetize my ways" for "Love, Success, and Happiness." Cover 4 shows the silhouette of a tail-up, arch-backed black cat surmounting a lucky coin on which there is a circle of fake Arabic letters surrounding an interlaced design of a heart, a wishbone, and an Ethiopian crowned lion. Beneath this is a ribbon on which is written "Power - Sincerity - Hope" and below that a motto, "The Answer to Thy Vision Dream." At the bottom, in small type, it is noted that the "newest cover design" (for the new revised fifth printing) was "Adopted January 1939," thus dating my reprint copy.

This book has gone through many reprintings and bad copying since it came out. The page count is reduced, the clever two-letter sets of name-initials are gone, the cover art has been replaced with ugly cat cartoons too unaesthetic to waste time on scanning ... and, sadly, all mentions of Marion Van Waker, Jr., a.k.a. Prof. Noi Ram, have been obliterated.

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Zolar [Bruce King]. "Lucky Dream Book: Occult Interpretations of 1001 Dreams; Lucky Numbers for Each Dream Based Upon the Science of Numerology; Compiled by Zolar." Zolar Publishing Co., 33 W. 60th St., New York, 23, N.Y. No date, but internal testimonials date it to shortly after 1937. 64 pages plus illustrated stiff paper wraps.

Cover 1 displays two images of Bruce King as Zolar, wearing an Indian turban, and two images of a figure titled "Lucky Buddha." Running across and through the art and lettering are hard-to-see, almost subliminal knock-out figures, among them stars, zodiacal glyphs, a young Cupid with bow and arrow, a pretty woman, and, perhaps, a bouquet of flowers. These repeat in rows, over and over, punching through the two-tone brown-and-aqua printing plates. The art is unsigned.

Cover 2 contains an advertisement for three books by Zolar, plus a Personal Horoscope. Pages 1 and 2 consist of an introduction about "The Interpretation of Dreams," which references testimonials for the accuracy of dreams dated to 1937, as well as "The Strange Dream of President Abraham Lincoln." Pages 3 - 63 consist of dreams and their interpretations. Each dream is given two lucky betting numbers. The first number, which precedes the dream is a numerological reduction of the word that describes the dream, according to the common English ABC = 123 system. Thus, for example, "Ice" is 8 (9 + 3 + 5 = 17 and 1+7 = 8). A second, 3-digit number follows the dream and this always adds up to the 1-digit reduction. Continuing the example of "Ice," the 3-digit betting number is 143 (and 1+4+3 = 8). Whoever took the time to put this system together was clever at math and spent a lot of time on it in order to avoid repetition. I have never seen a series of betting numbers as rational as this, and as a numerologist, i affirm that, as advertised, these are indeed "Lucky Numbers for Each Dream Based Upon the Science of Numerology."

Page 64, "You Have a Problem," advertises Zolar's question-answering service -- three questions answered for $3.00. Cover 3 advertises three books and the personal horoscope service. Cover 4 takes a turn away from the occult and promotes reprints of government forms and data about Social Security and Veteran's Benefits, plus a form for making a Last Will and Testament, all sent in a secure 4-pocket holder. The address is the same as for the Zolar Publishing Co., 33 W. 60th St., New York, 23, N.Y., with the addition of "Room 410, Dept. MA -4."

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[Anon.] "Dream Book [and] Palmistry. Mystic Art Company, n.p., 32 pages in red index stock wraps, saddle-stitched. Copyright 1920.

This 24mo, digest-size illustrated booklet is internally stated to have been published by the Mystic Art Company, about which nothing is known. However, a book exactly matching this cover title, page count, size, and description of illustrations and diagrams was listed in the U.S. copyright entries of 1920, as published by the Inland Poultry Journal Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana, and was assigned number 35551. It is unusual in that the front and back covers are identical, and the inside front and back covers are blank.

Pages 1-3 comprise an introduction to dreams. Pages 4-18 supply an alphabetical list of dreams with one-line interpretations and no lucky betting numbers. Also on page 18 are "Signs and Superstitions in Common Use." Page 19, "Will I marry Within the Year?" includes a green pea pod spell, a wishbone spell, a recipe for a dumb cake, and an unusual rhyme to be said upon seeing a "lonely, lonely buzzard" flying in the sky. Page 20 covers the signs of the zodiac and page 21 presents the "Language of Gems."

Pages 22-26 provide a brief lesson in palmistry, headed by a pen-and-ink drawing of a seated Indian man in a turban, with an incense brazier and a crystal ball on his table, reading the hand of a well-dressed young White woman wearing a large hat. In a call-back to the marriage spells earlier in the booklet, page 26 also carries a New Moon spell for seeing the future husband. Page 27 is the "Language of Flowers," pages 28-30 teach "Fortune Telling by Playing Cards," page 31 describes "Fortune Telling by the Grounds in a Tea or Coffee Cup," and page 32 is the Mystic Age Calculator," a bit of simple mental math to determine anyone's age who is 63 years old or younger.

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The hidden meaning and power of numbers forms the basis for the divinatory science of numerology -- The secret traditional methods to gain advantage through the use of lucky numbers. Dream books specifically designed for lottery play may provide interpretations of dreams (dream divination), but they also have something that other dream books do not have -- lucky numbers for you to bet on, depending on what your dreams reveal. This package also includes 2 rundown books, with convenient and easy-to-use printed tables for Numbers fans who like to bet on "relative" or "associate" numbers, otherwise known as "follow-ups" or numbers that are more likely to follow a winning number the next day.

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