Title of the first text: 一本飛章科 [yiben feizhang ke]. External cover title: 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 cleans the path for the fo...
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: 化依科通用. [huayi ke tongyong]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Custodial history: Private collecti...
Title of the first text: 一本初真科 老君金語 [yiben chuzhen ke laojun jinyu]. External cover title: 初真開解經壇科 [chuzhen kaijie jingtan ke]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent...
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancestors’ tabl...
This manuscript has does not contain a formal title on either the outer cover of the manuscript or the internal cover of the first text. Miscellaneous instructions about various spells. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 75 folios. Chin...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮秘 [yiben qingjiao mi]. Miscellanous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of offering. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 129 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒三十四年乙...
Title of the first text: 大斎秘語 [dazhai miyu]. External cover title: 一本大斎良綠 [yiben dazhai lianglv]. Miscellaneous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of retreat. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 12 folios. Chinese era name (...
Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉語 [huangquan yu]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for the old people, who after many years start to get sick, tired, sleepy, etc. Aimed at tao man the Deities of the Elders. Three types of magic inside. Custo...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本百解秘語 [Yibenbaijiemiyu]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Title of the first text: 雷府科 [leifu ke]. External cover title: 雷府冤解科 [leifu yuanjie ke]. Compilation of two texts: Lei fu and Yuan jie (Jie yuan). Lei fu: Instructions for the ritual to fight back against a ‘report to the spirits’; Yuan jie: Magic to build a house for the deities with three le...