Distant Reader - subject-exorcism-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 4 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 234,415 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 58,603 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 92. 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, may, god, also, one, time, will, pag, christ, vs, doe, selfe, now, must, prayer, yet, first, diuels, shall, vnto, lord, doctrine, meanes, therefore, spirit, men, man, many, fasting, concerning, cure, faith, exorcistes, much, doth, like, possessed, vpon, make, power, say, orthodoxus, diuell, see, spirits, way, forth, without, good, possession

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 Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ....

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, suns rising, haue bene, cast forth, powerfull expelling, tell vs, vncleane spirit, afflicting planet, let vs, prayer alone, iesus christ, supposed essentiall, sauiour christ, pretended demoniakes, yet notwithstanding, essentiallie possessed, parties possessed, set downe, master darell, meane time, long since, absolute authoritie, beare vs, planetary hours, actuall possession, owne selfe, supernaturall strength, christ iesus, infallible truth, holy ghost, among themselues, apostles faith, parties bewitched, early english, many times, must needs, may possiblie, set forth, will neuer, hee saith, telleth vs, essentiallie inherent

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. Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ..., and 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..

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:

lord, god, tcp, sauiour, iesus, haue, christ, apostles, word, witch, vse, vpon, venus, time, thyreus, sun, spirit, sorcery, sommers, somers, sign, sick, scripture, saturn, sathan, satan, rules, power, planet, patient, pag, orthodoxus, moon, mercury, matth, master, mars, man, maid, like, jupiter, ireland, iohn, herbs, hath, gospell, ghost, figure, exorcistes, early

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 Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ... 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?":

time, prayer, selfe, men, diuels, man, faith, meanes, power, way, exorcistes, possession, day, truth, spirit, themselues, reason, fasting, spirits, herbs, body, min, word, signes, others, nature, hand, times, diuell, possessions, persons, manner, thing, seuerall, cause, scripture, place, part, cure, doth, things, certaine, words, ordinance, planet, world, number, miracles, blood, purpose

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, are, was, were, being, had, did, have, said, concerning, possessed, make, say, haue, do, see, made, supposed, let, take, cast, according, come, done, came, cure, put, been, vnto, neuer, set, vsed, know, find, doe, called, fasting, pretended, found, afflicted, hath, possiblie, taken, pray, having, tell, conclude, cured, 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, lord, 〉, doe, ◊, 〈, d., doctrine, hath, moon, satan, yea, spirit, wee, ●, sun, apostles, downe, mars, m., iesus, vp, whatsoeuer, saturn, master, owne, thou, sathan, hee, diuell, vs, matth, jupiter, cor, al, act, patient, angels, luk, verie, herein, againe, doth, diuels, darel, followeth, church

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, they, his, i, you, he, their, your, them, we, him, her, our, she, my, me, its, thy, thee, vp, himself, us, one, theirs, yours, vnto, ours, themselves, yf, mine, herisie, ♓, ●, yt, yow, whey, whereof, ts, testimonie, senselesse, s, otherwis, moreouervnto, hey, herself, givē, diminishe, beg''d, 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, other, same, many, more, good, true, first, great, essentiall, supernaturall, much, miraculous, strong, former, holy, very, able, least, like, present, haue, most, whole, second, cold, little, large, proper, better, sole, full, hot, bare, saith, new, white, further, dead, sick, only, long, strange, idle, infallible, right, pretended, own, aforesaid, timely

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

Next steps

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