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: 一本清醮秘 [yiben qingjiao mi]. Miscellanous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of offering. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 129 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 光緒三十四年乙...
Title of the first text: 大斎秘語 [dazhai miyu]. External cover title: 一本大斎良綠 [yiben dazhai lianglv]. Miscellaneous instructions about the ceremony in the rituals of retreat. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 12 folios. Chinese era name (...
Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 黃泉語 [huangquan yu]. 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. Custo...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本百解秘語 [Yibenbaijiemiyu]. Miscellaneous descriptions of exorcist healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume...
Title of the first text: 雷府科 [leifu ke]. External cover title: 雷府冤解科 [leifu yuanjie ke]. Compilation of two texts: Lei fu and Yuan jie (Jie yuan). Lei fu: Instructions for the ritual to fight back against a ‘report to the spirits’; Yuan jie: Magic to build a house for the deities with three le...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 按龍科 [Anlong ke]. Ceremony to fix and improve the cemetery for the ancestors. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 36...
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: 一冊神目科 [yice shenmu ke.] Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, et...
Title of the first text: 一本大喃靈科 [yiben da nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original mat...
Title of the first text: 一本大部南靈科 [yiben dabu nanling ke]. External cover title: 大南靈科 [da nanling ke]. Instructions to lead the Keau Hu Man to bring the particular dead – by names - from the Purgatory to the ceremony/house. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original ...