Title of the first text: 一本集秘百科 [yiben jimi baike]. External cover title: 一本雜謝秘語 [yiben zaxie miyu]. Instructions about acknowledging the grace from the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊寅年帝陽月初六. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1878 / 193...
External cover title: 一本求財秘語 [yiben qiucai miyu]. Magic for the hunters. Shoot and fail animal, or does not see animal. Nam Deen Nam Kim Man, ai deah Kaeng, Deities of the Hunters. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 30 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 良緣秘語 [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, a...
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: 玄門授戒道 [xuanmen shoujie dao ]. Initiation ceremony for the ordination of the young Daoist disciple. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一冊判座科 [Yice panzuo ke]. The description of the work of Tai Mu and her servants. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛丑歲冬月. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years ...
External cover title: 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 110 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡破獄二科 [jiaojian poyu erke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions ...
External cover title: 初真科 [chuzhen ke ]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
This collection contains 29 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP1126/1/33/1 to EAP1126/1/33/29. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
External cover title: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙亥年三月十七日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1815 / 1875...