一本招兵科

This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 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. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙戌年八月初三抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1886 / 1946. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 90 folios.