External cover title and title of the first text: 一本道範科 [yiben daofan ke]. Basic book for the novice to study. He may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 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: 一本信書 [yiben xinshu]. History of the Yao in Laos and their customs and manners. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 120 folios. Date(s) cl...
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: 救一本救苦經 [jiu yiben jiukujing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Title of the first text: 紅樓半座科 [honglou banzuo ke]. External cover title: 一本紅樓判座科 [yiben honglou banzuo ke]. Compilation of two texts: Hong lou and Pan zuo. Hong lou: Magic to make the red and white houses of the mother of the earth. It also makes the altars into money, fruit, rice-fields, etc...
Title of the first text: 開山科 [kaishan ke ]. External cover title: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲甲子年八月初八日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1924 / 1984...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙丑年六月二十九日(1985.8). Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1865 / 1925. Extent ...
Title of the first text: 一本謝皇化依科 [yiben xiehuang huayi ke]. External cover title: 一本謝王化依拔亡 [yiben xiewang huayi bawang]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年六月二十六.
External cover title and title of the first text: 飛章科 [feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. Extent a...
Title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. 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 60 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國六十七歲六月十六日開筆.
Title of the first text: 喪家天機一部 [sangjia tianji yibu ]. External cover title: 度亡天機一部 [duwang tianji yibu]. 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 manu...