This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹本金語 金靈犯鬼 天娘?堂 小見投朐 秘 [Yiben jinyu jinling fangui tianniang ?tang xiaojian touqu mi]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Inclu...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 壹按龍伸斗秘語 [Yi anlong shendou miyu]. Anlong: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Shendou: First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic...
Title of the first text: 壹冊煉度科 [yice liandu ke ]. External cover title: 一本破獄茭簡煉度科 [yiben poyu jiaojian liandu ke]. Instructions for sending a Messenger-Dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased, imploring the gods - assistance to the Original Masters - to break the gates of the Purgatory...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [化依讚材樓科] [[huayi zancailou ke ]]. Compilation of two texts: Huayi: Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Zancailou: ope...
Title of the first text: 喪家天機一部 [sangjia tianji yibu ]. External cover title: 度亡天機一部 [duwang tianji yibu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes some money for the dead so they do not make problems for the living. Date(s) claimed in the manu...
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.
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: 救一本救苦經 [jiu yiben jiukujing]. Money to pay to Keau Hu Man so they protect all the ancestors and the dead. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Title of the first text: 迓王科一本 [yawang ke yiben]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 64 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十七年丁未歲仲呂月完筆.
External cover title and title of the first text: 桉龍密語 [anlong miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 58 folios.
Title of the first text: 喃相白文 茭簡 破獄 豎幡 從人 讚材樓 共一本 [nanxiang baiwen jiaojian poyu shufan congren zancailou gong yiben]. External cover title: 一本喃相 從人 破獄 茭簡 讚才樓 煉度科 [yiben nanxiang congren poyu jiaojian zancailou liandu ke]. Zan cai lou: Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house of th...