This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is title on the outer cover. External cover title: 一本南小靈科 [yiben xiao nanling ke]. Ceremony for seeing off the newly deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗科 [shendou ke ]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本教患科 [Yiben jiaohuan ke]. Instructions about providing an offering for the gods, with various scenarios for each god. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 巳丑年七月完筆. Calenda...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本南靈科 [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 86 folios.
External cover title: 土府延生科 [tufu yansheng ke]. Instructions about holding an audience with the gods, ensuring the longevity of the clients. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 大齋秘語 [Dazhai miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreates the whole world after ...
Title of the first text: 重集百解秘語 [chongji baijie miyu]. External cover title: 雜諸百解秘語 [zazhu baijie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 124 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐八年戊戌歲二月中旬完筆.
External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩秘語一本存冊 [hong'en miyu yiben cunce]. Magic to cleanse the land and recreate a new world after the flood; the flood-myth is recreated in order to cleanse and renew the universe. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 136 folios. Da...
Title of the first text: 老君金語 道教初真頭 師教授戒秘語尾 [laojun jinyu daojiao chuzhen tou shijiao shoujie miyu wei]. External cover title: 師道授戒秘語共冊 [shidao shoujie miyu gongce ]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 巳未年潤七月初二完筆. Calendar note...
External cover title: 一本梅山咒法秘語 [yiben meishan zhoufa miyu]. Miscellaneous spells for the daily activities such as washing oneself, going to toilet, eating, etc Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios.