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: 黃泉秘語 [huangquan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcistic healing rituals and some for the salvation of the deceased. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙卯年十一月二十五日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1915 / 1975. Extent ...
Title of the first text: 初真秘語早脫使用 [chuzhen miyu zaotuo shiyong]. External cover title: 初真秘語 [chuzhen 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: 甲申年. Calendar note: Stem-branc...
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...
Title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. External cover title: 救患科 [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, thi...
External cover title: 一本師意科 [yiben shiyi ke ]. Instructions about providing offerings for the gods. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁亥年. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1887 / 1947. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 118 folios.