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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/15/9
Title:: 清醮関告敕壇宿啟科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 清醮関告敕壇宿啟科 [qingjiao guan’gao chitan suqi ke]. Compilation of three texts: Guangao, Chitan and Suqi. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Suqi: The magic to make the deities to be born into this ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 66 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/15/13
Title:: 大斎宿啟科
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 大斎宿啟科 [Dazhai suqi ke]. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a magic book arranges their conception). The priest is the mother, he becomes Tjong Zheang...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 48 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/7
Title:: 一冊百解黃泉秘語
Scope & Content:: 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: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 26 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/10
Title:: 伸斗按龍解冤秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 伸斗按龍解冤秘語 [Shendou anlong jieyuan miyu]. Compilation of three texts: An long, Shen dou and Jie yuan. An long: Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors; She...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 43 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/12
Title:: 一本小百解秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本小百解秘語 [Yiben xiao baijie miyu]. Instructions about various magic for protection against disasters threatening the local community, and other exorcistic healing rituals. ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 42 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/16/18
Title:: 壹本引朝科
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本引朝科 [yiben yinchao ke]. Instructions about holding audiences with the gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 31 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 中華民國辛卯年七月二十七日終筆.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1951
Extent:: 28 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/1
Title:: 又集授戒川光
Scope & Content:: Title of the first text: 又集授戒川光 [youji shoujie chuanguang]. External cover title: 一本授戒川光 [yiben shoujie chuanguang]. Magic for the ordination of the disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1940
Extent:: 32 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/3
Title:: 度亡天機一本
Scope & Content:: External cover title and title of the first text: 度亡天機一本 [duwang tianji yiben]. 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. Extent and form...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 54 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/5
Title:: 一本亡秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本亡秘語 [Yiben wang miyu]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes instructions on the ritual payments for the dead so they ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 7 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/17/6
Title:: 隔空亡秘一本
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 隔空亡秘一本 [Gekong wang mi yiben]. Magic to be used in the primary death rituals to send the dead to the Purgatory. Includes instructions on the ritual payments for the dead so...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1650
Extent:: 7 TIFF images

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