External cover title and title of the first text: 一本伸斗科 [yiben shendou ke]. First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊戌年七月抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title and title of the first text: 招兵科 [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 cannot eat t...
External cover title and title of the first text: 度人道場科 [duren daochang ke ]. Instructions to cleansing the body of the novice (cleanse the past mistakes). A purification ritual so he can start the ritual ‘cleansed.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
Title of the first text: 一本斎亡金語 [yiben zhaiwang jinyu]. External cover title: 一本斎亡天機 [yiben zhaiwang tianji]. 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 ori...
External cover title and title of the first text: 謝境科一卷 [xiejing ke yijuan]. Magic to resolve problems with the Yam Yang Zhai Deities of the Hunters. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 46 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒十八年壬辰年六月二十八日抄完.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 大斎良緣秘語 [Dazhai liangyuan miyu]. Big magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-copper, house, rice field, garden, fruit tree...
External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙巳歲七月初九抄畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two...
Title of the first text: 斎秘笈亡秘 [zhai miji wangmi]. External cover title: 大斎良緣秘語 [dazhai liangyuan miyu]. Big magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-copper, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreates the ...
External cover title: 黃泉金語 [huangquan jinyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙戌十月二十八日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1874 / 1934. Extent...
External cover title: 一本百解秘語 [yiben baijie miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions aboutexorcistic healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 22 folios.