This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 大滅天災整村 [Da mietianzai zhengcun]. Instructions about various magic for protection against disasters threatening the local community. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙午...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本合婚書 [yiben hehun shu]. Manual about the horoscope of humans and the fortune of married couples. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 88 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國二年癸丑歲.
External cover title and title of the first text: 三夜送終密語 [sanye songzhong 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 original material: 1 volume of 10...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮金語 [yiben qingjiao jinyu]. 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 148 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國四十...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 洪恩秘語 [Hong'en miyu]. 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...
Title of the first text: 雜秘送返邪法 [zami songfanxie fa ]. External cover title: 雜秘返邪法 [zami fanxie fa]. Various exorcists magics Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚子年六月二十八日抄完(muberry). Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1780 / 1840 / 1900. Extent and f...
External cover title and title of the first text: 送終燈科 [songzhong dengke]. Instructions for the dead in the house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 74 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐九年巳未歲珄寶月下旬啟/六月二十一日辰時終筆.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家文字惩式 [Sangjia wenzi chengshi]. Instructions about details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
External cover title and title of the first text: 送終三夜科 [songzhong sanye ke]. Instructions about the details of the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐八年六月初一啟筆.
External cover title and title of the first text: 送終遠棺科 [songzhong yuanguan ke]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 94 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐九年六月初六日完.