External cover title: 一本符吏 敕壇 關告 宿啟 科 [yiben fuli chitan guangao suqi ke]. Compilation of four texts: Fuli Chitan Guangao and Suqi. Fuli: Instruction for summoning the spell officials. Guangao and Chitan. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Su...
External cover title: 大斎演朝科 [dazhai yanchao ke]. Ceremony to make audiences with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 204 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝王化依科 [yiben xiewang huayi ke ]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丁巳歲二月十五日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 日午安龍秘語 [riwu anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 108 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 同治六年丁卯歲二月二十日抄完.
External cover title: 師道受戒秘語 [shidao shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes magic.’ Extent and format of original material: ...
Title of the first text: 一冊清醮金語天機 [yice qingjiao jinyu tianji]. External cover title: 一冊清醮金語 [yice 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 142 folios. Da...
This manuscript has no internal cover title for the first text. The given title is for the title on the outer cover. External cover title: 一本小亡秘語共進貢法 [yiben xiao wangmiyu gong jingongfa]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for t...
Title of the first text: 朝天秘語一本 [chaotian miyu yiben]. External cover title: 玉皇明朝 [yuhuang mingchao]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙戌年七月初二抄完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1766 / 18...
Title of the first text: 小百解秘語一本 [xiaobaijie miyu yiben]. External cover title: 一冊小 百解/重集禁盆法 [yice xiaobaijie/chongji jinpen fa]. Miscellaneous descriptions of the exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.