External cover title and title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 54 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 送終三夜科 [songzhong sanye ke]. Instructions about the details of the ritual for the salvation of the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 70 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 光緒戊戌年冬月二十四日抄完.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本安龍科 [Yiben anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 96 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本関告會聖敕壇科 [yiben guangao huisheng chitan ke]. Guangao and Huisheng:Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸卯年三月. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: ...
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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 72 folios. Date(s) claimed in the man...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 重集六甲子头用 [Chongji liujiazi touyong]. A scenario for summoning tutelary and other deities, with their myths and associated folkstories as the background for the ritual. Exte...
External cover title and title of the first text: 宿啟科 [suqi ke ]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang Gee the Mother of the All the Living Creatures. Extent and format of original m...
External cover title and title of the first text: 土府三時科 [tufu sanshi ke]. Ceremony to hold three audiences in one day with the gods, especially the gods belonging to the earth officials. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十四年五月...
External cover title and title of the first text: 日午秘語 [riwu miyu]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, this is your story, listen t...
External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩貢延秘語 [hong'en gongyan miyu]. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and palaces. Hong en: Magic to recreate a new World after the Flood: ...