This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語 一本救患秘 [Anlong miyu yiben jiuhuan mi]. Compilation of two texts: An long and jiu huan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; Jiu huan: Th...
External cover title and title of the first text: 受戒秘語 [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...
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: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke.] Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. ...
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...
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...
External cover title and title of the first text: 早晚救患燈延秘語 [zaowan jiuhuan dengyan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 25 folios. Chinese era na...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸天秘雜百解小部語冊 [Zhu tian miza baijie xiaobu yuce]. Miscellaneous descriptions including a namelist of the gods, and other exorcistic healing rituals. Custodial history: Privat...
Title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. External cover title: 一本煉度科 [yiben liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. In the last part of this ceremony, they are rescued and can join th...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 迓王判亡科 [Yawang panwang ke]. Ceremony to provide an offering to the kings in the hell, ensuring the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent...