This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 洪恩蜜 [Hong'en mi]. Magic to clean the land and recreate a new world after the flood. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volum...
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: 血湖經. [xuehu jing]. Money for the Deities in the River to resolve the mistakes of all the female ancestors and the dead whose blood (menstrual, birth…) had ...
Instructions about providing an offering for the gods, with various scenarios for each god. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 69 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 甲子頭?.
Title of the first text: 大部召靈 [dabu zhaoling]. External cover title: 一本南靈科 [yiben nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original materia...
External cover title and title of the first text: 㾺瘋秘語壹冊 [mafeng miyu yice]. Instructions about therapist skills to cure mental diseases. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 39 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十九年巳亥歲十月初八日錄.
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本集咒科 [Yiben jizhouke]. Compilation of incantations which would be used in the rituals. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 v...
Ceremony to provide an offering to various gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.
Title of the first text: 又集授戒川光 [youji shoujie chuanguang]. External cover title: 一本授戒川光 [yiben shoujie chuanguang]. Magic for the ordination of the disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] t...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 喪家秘語一部 [Sangjia miyu yibu]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Custodial history: Private collection. Ext...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本百解天機一本清醮秘語 [yiben baijie tianji yiben qingjiao miyu]. Instructions about details in the ritual of the offering to the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era na...