External cover title: 一本按龍科 [yiben anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁巳?八月拾一日終完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1917 / 1977. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
Title of the first text: 一冊送鬼科 [yice songgui ke ]. External cover title: 壹本送聖科 [yiben songsheng ke ]. Offering flowers and wine, etc. several times and dispatching the gods sincerely at the end. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丁卯年七月初三日申時終筆. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-year...
External cover title: 老君金語 大齋良緣秘語 [laojun jinyu dazhai liangyuan miyu ]. Miscellaneous instructions about different kinds of rituals, including dispel the disaster. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 188f olios.
Title of the first text: 一本救患秘語 [yiben jiuhuan miyu ]. External cover title: 救患 [jiuhuan ]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 114 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清光緒十八年壬亥(辰)歲五月...
Title of the first text: 小喃靈科一本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. External cover title: 小喃靈科壹本 [xiao nanling ke yiben ]. Ceremony for the offspring to see off the deceased, with a long scenario. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 38 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 清?皇二年八月...
Title of the first text: 三宮科一本 [sangong ke yiben ]. External cover title: 三宮科 [sangong ke ]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙卯年肆月拾?日申時抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches syst...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 三宮科 [Sangong ke]. Ceremony to hold a lamp ritual, mainly aiming at the Dipper gods, ensuring the fortune and longevitiy of the host. Extent and format of original material...
External cover title: 一本金盆盆(秘)語 [yiben jinpen miyu ]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲庚申年九初一日戌時給弟子. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1920 / 1980. Extent and format of original material: 1 ...
Title of the first text: 壹冊清醮秘語 [yice qingjiao miyu ]. External cover title: 壹本清醮秘 [yiben qingjiao mi]. Magic to transform the altars into ritual payments which are aimed to the deities invited to occupy seats in the altars. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 100 folios. Dat...
External cover title: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke ]. Instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲丙辰䚴正月初三日巳時完畢. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: ...