This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 泰山度亡共一本 [taishan duwang gong yiben]. Magic to be used in the funeral rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manusc...
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: 說醮科壹本 [shuojiao ke yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format ...
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...
Title of the first text: 新文授械(戒)皈依 [xinwen shoujie guiyi]. External cover title: 新文授械(戒)皈依共 [xinwen shoujie guiyi gong]. Instructions for the ritual payments: How much money goes to which spirits. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 26 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscrip...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke ]. Instructions to "open the forest" so a new village can be built. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙丑年六月二十九日(1985.8). Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1865 / 1925. Extent ...
Title of the first text: 一本謝皇化依科 [yiben xiehuang huayi ke]. External cover title: 一本謝王化依拔亡 [yiben xiewang huayi bawang]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’ Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 40 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丁酉年六月二十六.
External cover title and title of the first text: 飛章科 [feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. Extent a...
External cover title: 按龍 救患秘語 [anlong jiuhuan miyu ]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves; Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙子年七月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-b...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 單時 設醮科一本 [Danshi shejiao ke yiben]. Danshi: Ceremony to hold audiences with the gods from the heavens.Shejiao: Ceremony to hold an offering for the gods, and to send up a p...
External cover title: 小本天機金語 還債秘語 [xiaoben tianji jinyu huanzhai miyu ]. Instruction about repaying loan during the funeral or the ritual of the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲癸亥年三月蝕六日戌時抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1923 / 1983. E...