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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/4/9
Title:: 度亡天機秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 度亡天機秘語 [duwangtianjimiyu]. External cover title: 喪家秘 [sangjia mi]. 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. Custodial history: Private collection. Ex...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 93 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/4/10
Title:: 一本清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. External cover title: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vol...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1890
Extent:: 142 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/5/2
Title:: 雜解治亡秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 雜解治亡秘語 [zajie zhiwang miyu]. External cover title: 斎亡雜解秘語 [zhaiwang zajie miyu]. Magic for a healing ceremony. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 15 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒十八年壬辰歲九月初二日完筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 65 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/5/3
Title:: 一本顛倒打寨肚痛眼痛法書
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 一本顛倒打寨肚痛眼痛法書 [yiben diandao dazhai dutong yantong fashu]. External cover title: 壹本雜秘 [yiben zami]. Magic to resolve craziness made by the spirits (Lanten: man blah meaning possesion). Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 vo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 34 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/8/2
Title:: 延生救苦宿啟
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 延生救苦宿啟 [yansheng jiuku suqi]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. Ceremony to ensure the salvation of the newly deceased.The magic to make the deities to...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 77 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/3
Title:: 雜百解諸件小秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 雜百解諸件小秘語 [za baijie zhujian xiao miyu]. External cover title: 治煞秘 [zhisha mi]. Miscellaneous instructions about exorcist-healing rituals, visualization practice for the host's fortune and other magic. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of origin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 118 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/9/4
Title:: 重集斎短亡秘語
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 重集斎短亡秘語 [chongji zhai duanwang miyu]. External cover title: 重集斎短蜜語 [chongji zhaiduan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions about the magic used in the ritual for the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 24 f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1860
Extent:: 45 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/1
Title:: 按龍秘語天機法伸斗解冤
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍秘語天機法伸斗解冤 [Anlong miyu tianji fa shendou jieyuan]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors.First ceremony for the ‘old people’ (in their forties). Bas...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/12
Title:: 清醮秘語
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮秘語 [qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios. Chinese e...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 110 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/18
Title:: 貢王救苦延生宿啟科
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 貢王救苦延生宿啟科 [gongwang jiuku yansheng suqi ke]. External cover title: 斎恩宿啟 [zhai'en suqi]. Ceremony with a standard structure as a Taoist retreat, including three audiences in a day, ensuring the longevity of the host. Ceremony to ensure the salvation of the newly decease...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 52 TIFF images

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