Distant Reader - subject-demoniacPossession-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 7 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 189,292 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 27,041 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 94. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

haue, god, may, also, christ, pag, vs, one, doe, selfe, prayer, diuels, vnto, will, doctrine, now, meanes, yet, therefore, men, spirit, time, power, fasting, exorcistes, faith, man, vpon, possessed, lord, orthodoxus, diuell, shall, like, much, possession, see, yea, say, must, concerning, first, many, doth, themselues, spirits, truth, without, worke, himselfe

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A summarie ansvvere to al the material points in any of Master Darel his bookes More especiallie to that one booke of his, intituled, the Doctrine of the possession and dispossession of demoniaks out of the word of God. By Iohn Deacon. Iohn Walker. Preachers., A true narration of the strange and greuous vexation by the Devil, of 7. persons in Lancashire, and VVilliam Somers of Nottingham Wherein the doctrine of possession and dispossession of demoniakes out of the word of God is particularly applyed vnto Somers, and the rest of the persons controuerted: togeather with the vse we are to make of these workes of God. By Iohn Darrell, minister of the word of God., and The Quakers shaken, or, A discovery of the errours of that sect by John Gilpin, of the town of Kendale in Westmoreland, who was once one of the said sect, and afterwards by Gods grace left the same ; attested by the major and pastour of Kendale, and diverse others..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

essentiall possessions, vnto vs, essentiall possession, miraculous faith, ordinarie meanes, put downe, sole prayer, seuerall orders, master darel, haue bene, powerfull expelling, vncleane spirit, tell vs, english books, early english, let vs, prayer alone, iesus christ, supposed essentiall, sauiour christ, pretended demoniakes, essentiallie possessed, set downe, books online, parties possessed, master darell, cast forth, long since, beare vs, meane time, absolute authoritie, supernaturall strength, actuall possession, christ iesus, owne selfe, infallible truth, parties bewitched, holy ghost, apostles faith, among themselues, must necessarilie, will neuer, may possiblie, may plainely, essentiallie inherent, hee saith, telleth vs, like manner, wee haue, must needes

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The wonderfull and true relation of the bewitching a young girle in Ireland, what way she was tormented, and a receipt of the ointment that she was cured with. The Quakers shaken, or, A discovery of the errours of that sect by John Gilpin, of the town of Kendale in Westmoreland, who was once one of the said sect, and afterwards by Gods grace left the same ; attested by the major and pastour of Kendale, and diverse others., and Dreadful news from Wapping: being a further relation of the sad and miserable condition of Sarah Bower a young girl, of about fourteen years of age, who is unhappily, at present, posses''d with an evil spirit, by Wapping New-Stairs, near the Chappel. All faithfully related by Richard Kirby, student in physick and astrology, who hath visited her. Licensed according to order..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, tcp, christ, sommers, sauiour, power, lord, iesus, haue, early, apostles, word, vse, vpon, time, thyreus, spirit, somers, scripture, sathan, satan, pag, orthodoxus, mr., matth, master, man, like, kendale, john, ireland, iohn, hath, gospell, ghost, exorcistes, doe, doctrine, diuels, disciples, devill, detection, demoniakes, darel, church, bene, angels

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be haue, and The Quakers shaken, or, A discovery of the errours of that sect by John Gilpin, of the town of Kendale in Westmoreland, who was once one of the said sect, and afterwards by Gods grace left the same ; attested by the major and pastour of Kendale, and diverse others. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

prayer, selfe, time, men, diuels, power, faith, meanes, man, possession, exorcistes, themselues, spirit, truth, fasting, spirits, word, signes, hand, manner, diuell, possessions, day, seuerall, scripture, persons, others, words, reason, certaine, thing, text, world, ordinance, things, miracles, himselfe, purpose, euery, nature, matters, scriptures, selfesame, end, body, people, rest, iudgement, cause, parties

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, was, are, were, had, being, did, said, possessed, haue, see, say, concerning, make, supposed, cast, do, came, come, vnto, made, neuer, vsed, let, doe, fasting, pretended, put, been, take, done, possiblie, found, heard, according, worke, hauing, tell, hath, speake, have, pray, selfe, know, euen, set, meane, conclude, brought

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, christ, pag, haue, doe, 〉, 〈, d., ◊, doctrine, lord, hath, satan, yea, spirit, wee, downe, apostles, thou, ●, hee, iesus, vp, whatsoeuer, owne, master, sathan, diuell, vs, matth, angels, cor, act, al, luk, verie, againe, diuels, darel, m., church, bene, demoniakes, sauiour, disciples, tcp, exorcistes, iohn, holie, doth

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, his, they, he, you, i, your, their, them, we, him, our, her, my, she, me, thy, thee, us, vp, himself, yours, theirs, vnto, ours, one, mine, yf, its, herisie, ●, yt, yow, whereof, ts, themselves, testimonie, senselesse, otherwis, moreouervnto, herself, hee, givē, diminishe, ay

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

such, same, other, many, more, essentiall, good, true, supernaturall, miraculous, great, former, much, holy, very, able, least, haue, present, first, whole, strange, like, little, most, sole, bare, further, proper, new, saith, idle, large, infallible, pretended, second, timely, dead, only, strong, secret, absurd, better, wise, false, absolute, full, apparant, admirable, speciall

not, so, then, also, very, now, therefore, thus, out, more, only, all, at, before, onely, forth, as, yet, vs, thereof, first, rather, much, well, there, here, most, therein, together, surely, alone, namely, plainely, no, especially, too, vndoubtedly, further, sometimes, thereby, in, often, away, otherwise, about, long, that, up, once, is

Next steps

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