External cover title: 按龍 救患秘語 [anlong jiuhuan miyu ]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves; Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙子年七月十五日. Calendar note: Stem-b...
Title of the first text: 一本治邙秘語 [yiben zhiwang miyu ]. External cover title: 邙秘語 [wang miyu]. Magic for a healing ceremony and instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 天運太歲丁亥年寅月癸未腨甲午旬越至丙申日. Calendar...
External cover title and title of the first text: 安龍科 [anlong ke ]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 太歲乙未年三月初一日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1895 / 1955. Extent and format of origina...
Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. External cover title: 迓王科 [yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 皇上五年癸丑歲六月十二日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1793 / 1853...
External cover title: 一本交(茭)簡科 破獄科 [yiben jiaojian ke 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. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 32 folios.
External cover title and title of the first text: 讚車材樓科 [zan che cailou ke ]. Instructions to build and open the eyes of the house and car of the Ancestors for the secondary death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 68 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 乙未歲卯月乙未...
Title of the first text: 大部南靈科 [dabu nanling ke ]. External cover title: 南靈科 [nanling ke ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 102 folios. Date(s) claimed...
Title of the first text: 度煉科 [dulian ke ]. External cover title: 煉度科 [liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify the bodies of the ancestors once they have rescued from the Purgatory during the death ritual. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 42 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manus...
External cover title and title of the first text: 南靈科 [nanling ke ]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 癸丑年十二月二十六日. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: T...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 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 62 folios.