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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/27
Title:: 泰山度亡共一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 泰山度亡共一本 [taishan duwang gong yiben]. Magic to be used in the funeral rituals. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manusc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 26 Jun 1889
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/39/29
Title:: 壹本按龍神機秘語
Scope & Content:: 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: 壹本按龍神機秘語 [yiben anlong shenji miyu]. Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. Extent and format of original ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 29 Jul 1928
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/1
Title:: 一冊伸斗按龍解冤秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一冊伸斗按龍解冤秘語 [yice anlong shendou jieyuan miyu]. External cover title: 一冊按龍秘語 [yice 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 70 folios. Date(s) claimed in th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 25 Feb 1918
Extent:: 36 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/4
Title:: 返邪秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 返邪秘語 [fanxie miyu]. Various exorcists magics Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 大清丁巳年十二月二十三日抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1797 / 1857. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 fo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1797-1857
Extent:: 25 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/17
Title:: 一本洪恩秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本洪恩秘語 [yiben hong'en miyu]. External cover title: 洪恩秘語老君金言 [hong'en miyu laojun jinyan]. the ceremony to invite this Deity to assist the priests and masters with the magic Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 204 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manusc...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 20 Jan 1917
Extent:: 103 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/18
Title:: 洪恩貢延秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 洪恩貢延秘語 [hong'en gongyan miyu]. Gong yan: Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and palaces. Hong en: Magic to recreate a new World after the Flood: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/25
Title:: 小雜秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 小雜秘語 [xiaoza miyu]. External cover title: 一本小雜秘語 [yiben xiaoza miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 28 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 壬戌年皇春月上旬十五日...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1802-1862
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/26
Title:: 一本削門喪家秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本削門喪家秘語 [yiben xuemen sangjia miyu]. External cover title: 喪家秘語 [sangjia miyu]. 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. Extent and format of origina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1846-1906
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/27
Title:: 壹本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 壹本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 清醮秘語一本 [qingjiao miyu yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 龍飛元年癸丑歲七月初三完筆. Calendar note: Stem-branch...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1793-1853
Extent:: 60 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1126/1/40/28
Title:: 授械（戒）秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title: 授械（戒）秘語 [shoujie miyu ]. Magic for the ordination disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes.’ Extent and f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 9 TIFF images

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