External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben ]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to occupy seats in the altars. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁巳年十一月初六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-y...
External cover title and title of the first text: 南靈科 [nanling ke ]. 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: 癸丑年十二月二十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: T...
External cover title: 大攅聧秘語 [da zankui miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲子年四月初五日午時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1924 / 1984. Extent and format of...
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: 壹本禮境草(單)時 [yiben lijing danshi]. Organize the meal for the Deities who have joined the ceremony. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 44 fo...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. Instructions to “open the forest” so a new village can be built. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 132 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光庚子歲十月廿四日辰時.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本救患按龍秘語 [Yiben jiuhuan anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves; Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healin...
Title of the first text: 壹論替大首茒人法 [yilun ti dashou maoren fa ]. External cover title: 百解秘語 [baijie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 8 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 按龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 92 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本清醮宿啟設醮送聖科 [yiben qingjiao suqi shejiao songsheng ke ]. External cover title: 宿啟設醮送聖科 [suqi shejiao songsheng ke ]. Text to open the ceremony. The Tham Teang ‘original priests’ go to collect the money from the Three Celestial Banks. Suqi: Ceremony to announce various ...
External cover title: 百解秘語 [baijie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist skills, therapist skills and other magics. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 82 folios.