Title of the first text: 一本天師戒度科 [yiben tianshi jiedu ke]. External cover title: 一本披簪科 [yiben pizan ke]. The instructions to teach the boy. The ritual expert translates this book for the boy from formal to vernacular. Moral rules to follow in order to behave like a gentleman/scholar. Extent a...
External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本集謝秘語 [yiben jixie miyu]. Instructions about acknowledging the grace from the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 李氏本命辛卯年二月初四建. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1831 / 1891. Extent and format o...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小百解一本 [xiaobaijie yiben ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐四年.
External cover title and title of the first text: 百解秘語 [baijie miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions aboutexorcistic healing rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒十四年五月二十九日抄完.
Title of the first text: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大斎南靈 [dazhai nanling]. 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 120 folios. Date(s) claimed...
External cover title and title of the first text: 十方懺悔 [shifang chanhui]. Ceremony for releasing the souls from suffering and leaving the living people Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
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 Hunte...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 讚才樓科 [Zan cailou ke]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. This spirit-house is brought out of the village ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一冊大斎良緣秘語 [yice 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 whole World after...