This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本飛章科 [Yiben 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 wo...
Title of the first text: 大齋秘語 [dazhai miyu]. External cover title: 一本大齋秘語 [yiben dazhai miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreates the whole world after the flood. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩秘語 [hong'en miyu]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 更子年八月初一. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1900 / 1960. Extent and format of o...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 南靈科 [Nanlingke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript...
External cover title and title of the first text: 新恩初真授戒秘語 [xin'en chuzhen shoujie miyu]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁弓(丑?)年五月初三. Calendar note: Stem-branches system ...
External cover title: 大亡天娘齋醮亡秘語 [dawang tianniang zhaijiao wang 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本辛年金朝收什秘語 [yiben xinnian jinzhao shoushi miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 甲申年十月十一日啟. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1884 / 1944...
External cover title: 一本受戒秘語 [yiben shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes magic.’ Extent and format of original material: 1...
External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本救患秘語 [yiben jiuhuan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 90 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十一年.
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...