External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. 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 the ancestors’ tabl...
External cover title and title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. 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 the ancestors’ tabl...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一冊百解黃泉秘語 [yice baijie huangquan miyu]. Magic to organize a healing ceremony for 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: ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本煉度科 [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. Last part of this ceremony in which they had been rescued and can join the ancesto...
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...
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...
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...