Title of the first text: 一本集秘天機 [yiben jimi tianji]. External cover title: 天機秘語 [tianji 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 戊寅年正...
External cover title: 一冊齋醮亡秘語 [yice 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙巳年七月十三日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches ...
External cover title: 一本入仙秘語 [yiben ruxian miyu ]. Magic to expel evils. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛丑年七月十五日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1901 / 1961. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 20 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本按龍秘語 [Yiben anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸未年. Calendar note: ...
External cover title: 一本齋醮亡秘語 [yiben 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁亥年七月二十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches s...
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...
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: 庚戌歲十月十五日完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1850 / 1910...
External cover title and title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤救患秘語一本 [shendou anlong jieyuan jiuhuan miyu yiben ]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Shen dou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their f...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [Yiben qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original ma...
External cover title and title of the first text: 兇路斎亡秘語 [xionglu zhaiwang 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 辛亥年十一月十九日未時抄完. Ca...