Title of the first text: 無上良緣大小秘 [wushang liangyuan daxiao mi]. External cover title: 無上良緣大秘 [wushang liangyuan dami]. It is used to make the altars, thus to (re)start the World. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 126 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十四年抄.
External cover title: [日午安龍秘語] [[riwu anlong miyu]]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 甲戊年十月十九日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1814 / 1874. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 百解法書 [Baijie fashu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 100 folios. Date(s) claimed in the man...
Title of the first text: 萬靈全書喃靈科 [wanling quanshu nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本喃靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 114 folio...
Title of the first text: 小南靈科 [xiao nanling ke]. External cover title: 一本小南靈科 [yiben xiaonanling ke]. Ceremony for seeing off the newly deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本早晚治亡堂小百解在內秘語 [Yiben zaowan zhiwangtang xiao baijie]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 104 f...
Title of the first text: 小雜秘語 [xiaoza miyu]. External cover title: 一本小雜秘語 [yiben xiaoza miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 28 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬戌年皇春月上旬十五日...
Title of the first text: 一本削門喪家秘語 [yiben xuemen sangjia miyu]. External cover title: 喪家秘語 [sangjia miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Extent and format of origina...
Title of the first text: 壹本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 龍飛元年癸丑歲七月初三完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branch...
External cover title: 授械(戒)秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Magic for the ordination disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes.’ Extent and f...