External cover title and title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. 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, ...
External cover title: 一本禮境引科 [yiben lijing yinke]. Ceremony to hold an audience with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios.
External cover title: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cannot eat this chicken. Extent...
Title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke]. External cover title: 一本安龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚申年六月二十日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1740 / 1800 / 1860....
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: 小橋台科 [xiao qiaotai ke ]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folios. Date(s) claimed in t...
External cover title: 一本符吏 敕壇 關告 宿啟 科 [yiben fuli chitan guangao suqi ke]. Compilation of four texts: Fuli Chitan Guangao and Suqi. Fuli: Instruction for summoning the spell officials. Guangao and Chitan. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Su...
External cover title: 大斎演朝科 [dazhai yanchao ke]. Ceremony to make audiences with the gods. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 204 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本謝王化依科 [yiben xiewang huayi ke ]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 80 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 咸豐六年丁巳歲二月十五日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 日午安龍秘語 [riwu anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 108 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 同治六年丁卯歲二月二十日抄完.
External cover title: 師道受戒秘語 [shidao 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: ...