External cover title and title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 任子年六月初六完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1912 / 1972. ...
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: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 110 folios.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 延生目 神目科 [Yansheng mu shenmu ke]. Shenmu:Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc...
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: 一本道範科 [yiben daofan ke]. Basic book for the novice to study. He may really start studying in real life if he wants to become a ritual expert. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年九月立披. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1777 / 18...
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...
External cover title: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu ]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬申年五月十九日立. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1872 / 1932. Ext...