External cover title and title of the first text: 齋醮神目科 [zhaijiao shenmu ke]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios. Date(s) claimed in...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚午年四月十三日啟,七月十四日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1810 / 1870 / 1930. ...
Title of the first text: 一本大斎秘語 [yiben dazhai miyu]. External cover title: 大斎? [dazhai?]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals, visualization practices, and ritual performance. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 268 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manus...
Title of the first text: 一本洪恩秘語 [yiben hong'en miyu]. External cover title: 一本洪恩秘 [yiben hong'en mi]. 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...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本黃泉蓮花根秘語 [yiben huangquan lianhuagen miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 甲午年四月二十五日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
Title of the first text: 道門喪家秘語一部 [daomen sangjia miyu yibu]. External cover title: 一本度亡秘語 [yiben duwang 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. Date(s) claimed in the...
Title of the first text: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. External cover title: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in th...
Title of the first text: 一本大南靈科 [yiben da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科一本 [da nanling ke yiben ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛未年林鐘月. Calendar note: Stem-...
External cover title: 宿啟科 [suqi ke ]. Ceremony to announce the gods in advance (namely Suqi) as the preparation period of the ritual for the longevity of the hosts. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 56 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本符吏會聖勅壇科 [yiben fuli huisheng chitan ke]. External cover title: 一本醮符吏科 [yiben jiao fuli ke ]. Instruction for summoning the spell officials. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios.