This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本橋夫十六用 [Yiben qiaofu shiliu yong]. Librettos about the merits to hold retreats. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume o...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本凈壇科 [Yiben jingtan ke]. Instructions to cleanse the altars in the house (‘clean the office for the deities’). They make the spirit side of the altars clean and beautiful....
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本朝天科 [Yiben chaotian ke]. Instructions about holding the audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
External cover title and title of the first text: 飛章科 [feizhang ke]. Instruction to build a road. A big dragon makes the road with his body in the spirit side to the Garden of the Ancestors to facilitate further working in the area. The dragon clean the path for the forthcoming works. Custodia...
Title of the first text: 燈科燈文解結散花催靈科壹存用 [dengke dengwen jiejie sanhua cuiling ke yi cunyong]. External cover title: 送終燈科 [songzhong deng ke]. Instructions for the dead in the house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 48 folios. Chinese...
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: 招兵 [zhao bing.] Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken ...
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: 一本按龍秘語 [yiben anlong miyu.] Magic to send the dragons to fix the graves in the cemetery and to protect the graves. 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: 一本伸科 [yiben shen ke.] First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Basic ceremony to introduce them to Tao Man the Deities of the Elders. Custo...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, this is your story, ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 招兵羅五科 [zhaobing luowu ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform siu paeng a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the ...
