External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本破獄煉度茭龍科 [yiben poyu liandu jiaolong ke]. Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armies and Keau Hu Man to attack the Underworld and collect the dead. Jiaojian...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 天師戒度科初真在頭開解在尾 [Tianshi jiedu ke chuzhen zaitou kaijie zaiwei]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of...
Title of the first text: 早晚救患燈延安龍伸斗解冤壹部 [zaowan jiuhuan dengyan anlong shendou jieyuan yibu]. External cover title: 救患按龍秘語 [jiuhuan anlong miyu]. A book for baby naming ceremony which includes the ceremonies to ‘fix the flowers’ thus to reinforce the health and strengthen the baby, and to ‘kil...
External cover title and title of the first text: 下堂煉度科壹本 [xiatang liandu ke yiben]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join t...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本符命式大煉在頭小煉在尾 [yiben fuming shi dalian zaitou xiaolian zaiwei]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. Last part of this ceremony in which they ha...
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: 化依促人樓材科. [huayi curen loucai ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Instructions to teach the butl...
External cover title and title of the first text: 謝王化依科 [xiewang huayi ke]. Secondary death ritual combined with huayi ‘making clothes.’. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 27 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲?乙丑年七月二十一日抄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘 [yiben huangquan mi]. 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. Custodial history: Private...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本良綠秘語 [yiben lianglv miyu]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. This magic recreates the whole World after the Flood. Alta...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本怗簡符吏科敕壇科清醮說醮科 [Yiben zhanjian fuli ke chitan ke qingjiao shuojiao ke]. Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know th...