袁枚 Yuan Mei (1716-1796)
Zibuyu 子不語
17 卷十七
22
Topic 4 Hands, People, Apparitions
木皂隸 The Wooden Guardsman
木皂隸
京師寶泉局有土地祠，旁塑木皂隸四人，爐頭銅匠，咸往祀焉。每夜，眾匠宿局中，年少者夢中輒被人雞奸，如魘寐然，心惡之而手足若有所縛，不能動，亦不能叫呼。旦起，摸穀道中，皆有青泥。如是月餘，群相揶揄，終不知何怪。後祀土地，見一隸貌如夜間來淫人者，乃訴之官，取鐵釘釘其足，嗣後怪絕。
English
The Wooden Guardsman
…coming soon…
Deutsch
Der hölzerne Wächter
…demnächst verfügbar…
Translation into English and German, unless otherwise indicated, by:
Übersetzungen ins Englische und Deutsche, soweit nicht anders angegeben, von:
Teresa Johnson, Ph.D.
Topics
In a corpus of ca. 3100 stories from the strange tales collections Zibuyu, Xu Zibuyu, Yuewei caotangbiji, Liaozhai zhiyi, Yetan suilu, Ershilu and Xieduo an LDA-based topic modeling algorithm was asked to identify exactly 50 topics. The algorithm calculated the probability of each of the 50 topics to appeaer in each of the stories. Below are given the Top 5 topics in decending order of their probabilities for the story above. Probabilities are indicated with percentage numbers.
Locations
Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.