Title of the first text: 一本大亡小亡天機秘語 [yiben dawang xiaowang tianji miyu]. External cover title: 一本大亡小亡秘語 [yiben dawang xiaowang 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. ...
Title of the first text: 一本六合通書 [yiben liuhe tongshu ]. External cover title: 六合通書 [liuhe tongshu]. A concise encyclopedia of classifications that provides the technical knowledge that ordinary people need in their daily lives. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios. D...
Title of the first text: 洪恩秘語 [hong'en jinyu]. External cover title: 一本洪恩秘語 [yiben hong'en miyu]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊辰年給付. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1808 / 186...
Title of the first text: 一本大獻接聖橋台科 [yiben daxian jiesheng qiaotai ke ]. External cover title: 大獻橋台接聖 [daxian qiaotai jiesheng]. Ceremony to summon various tutelary gods. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 164 folios.
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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國七十三年六月初三日抄.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本單食引朝科 [yiben danshi yinchao ke]. Instructions for holding three audiences with various gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚寅年七月十八日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1890 / 1950. Extent and fo...
External cover title: 一本南靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 84 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [關吿 宿啟 設醮 飛章] [[guangao suqi shejiao feizhang]]. Compilation of four texts: Guangao Suqi Shuojiao and Feizhang. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony; Suqi:Ceremony to announc...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cann...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本関告敕壇科 [yiben guangao chitan ke]. Compilation of two texts: Guangao and Chitan. Guangao:Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios.