The total number of strokes in a name can determine a person's fortune:for example twelve strokes bespeaks a life of illness and failure,while 81 strokes presages prosperity and a happy future.
For when Caesar would have discharged the senate, in regard of some ill presages, and especially a dream of Calpurnia; this man lifted him gently by the arm, out of his chair, telling him, he hoped he would not dismiss the senate, till his wife had dreamt a better dream.
