This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 齋亡治冤 [Zhaiwang zhiyuan]. Instructions about various details in the retreat for the deceased and the ceremony in the funeral. Extent and format of original material: 1 volu...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本小南靈科 [yiben xiaonanling ke ]. Ceremony for seeing off the newly deceased. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 丙辰年七月十五日抄. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Two plausible dates: 1856 / 1916. Extent and format of original m...
Title of the first text: 南昌 [nanchang]. External cover title: 南昌科 [nanchangke]. The collection of various types of talismans “Fu”. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 66 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 道光二十年二月初五日抄.
Title of the first text: [紅樓判座科] [[honglou panzuo ke]]. External cover title: [紅樓 求嗣酧恩] [[honglou qiusi chouen]]. Compilation of two texts: Hong lou and Pan zuo. Hong lou: Magic to make the red and white houses of the mother of the earth. It also makes the altars into money, fruit, rice-fields...
External cover title: 一本茭簡破獄科 [yiben jiaojian poyu ke]. Compilation of two texts: Jiaojian and Poyu. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place; Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of P...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [Yiben yawang ke]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 56 folios. Date(s) claimed i...
Title of the first text: 一本神目 [yiben shenmu ]. External cover title: 神木科 [shenmu ke ]. Instructions to invite all spirits to join the ceremony. Includes the Ten Magistrates of the Purgatory, the Deities of the Heat, etc. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 62 folios. Date(s) ...
Title of the first text: 一本符吏勅壇関告科 [yiben fuli chitan guangao ke]. External cover title: 関告科 [guangao ke]. Compilation of three texts: Fuli, Guangao and Chitan. Fuli: Instructions for summoning the spell officials. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad ...
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...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 說礁科一本 [Shuojiaoke yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original materi...