External cover title and title of the first text: 帝母半(判)座科 [dimu panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊辰年五月初二日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1808 / 1868. Extent and format of or...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹按龍伸斗秘語 [Yi anlong shendou miyu]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本設醮飛章科 [Yiben shejiao feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate ...
Title of the first text: 清醮関告啟去 宿啟設醮科 [qingjiaoguangao qiqu suqi shejiao ke]. External cover title: 一本宿啟科 [yiben suqi ke ]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the...
External cover title: 伸魂科一本 [shenhun ke yiben]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’. Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios.
Title of the first text: 一冊邙鬼? [yice wanggui?]. External cover title: 一冊邙秘語 [yice wang miyu]. Discussions about the various ritual performance. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年七月十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1837 / 1897. Extent and fo...
Title of the first text: 急時救患秘語 [jishi jiuhuan miyu]. External cover title: 急時救患 [jishi jiuhuan ]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 己未年五月中旬启抄. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two pl...
Title of the first text: 會聖科集 [huisheng keji]. External cover title: 一本會聖科 [yiben huisheng ke]. Text to open the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國六十二歲六月十七日開始.
Title of the first text: 新文授械(戒)皈依 [xinwen shoujie guiyi]. External cover title: 新文授械(戒)皈依共 [xinwen shoujie guiyi gong]. Instructions for the ritual payments: How much money goes to which spirits. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
External cover title: 一本在內書 天地根底習字抄在內書 [yiben zainei shu tiandi gendi xizi chaozainei shu]. Dictionary that gives a list of the words (written words and idioms) in an unknown order and explains what they mean in life language. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 巳酉年八月初二. Calendar note: Stem-br...