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.
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...
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. ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 大會科 [dahui ke]. Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and palaces. Magic to make the lao pet lao tee red and white houses of Tei Mu. It also make th...
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: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second de...
Title of the first text: 斎亡金語 [zhaiwang jinyu]. External cover title: 一本大亡秘 [yiben da wangmi]. 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 manuscript: 乙亥年十...
Title of the first text: 齋醮秘語良緣 [zhaijiao miyu liangyuan ]. External cover title: 齋醮良緣秘語 [zhaijiao liangyuan miyu ]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreate...
Title of the first text: 一本集秘天機 [yiben jimi tianji]. External cover title: 天機秘語 [tianji 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 manuscript: 戊寅年正...
External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 任子年六月初六完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 / 1972. ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本受戒秘語 [Yiben 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,’ ‘gi...