External cover title and title of the first text: 一本清醮秘語 [yiben qingjiao miyu]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚寅年十二月初四抄完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Tw...
Title of the first text: 茭佔簡破獄三科共本 [Jiaozhanjian poyu sanke gongben]. External cover title: 讚才科 [zancai ke]. Compilation of three texts: iaojian, Poyu and Zancailou. Jiaojian: Instructions to send messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ...
Title of the first text: 釋服從人讚車科 [shifu congren zanche ke]. External cover title: 壹本讚車財樓科 [yiben zanche cailou ke]. Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is taking place. Secondary death ritual.Cong ren:...
Title of the first text: 一本削門喪家秘語 [yiben xuemen sangjia miyu]. External cover title: 喪家秘語 [sangjia miyu]. 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. Extent and format of origina...
Title of the first text: 凶路齋醮密語一本 [xionglu zhaijiao miyu yiben]. External cover title: 大小齋醮咒短秘㫖 [daxiao zhaijiao zhouduan mizhi]. 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. Exte...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 延生土府貢王救苦関告壹本 [Yansheng tufu gongwang jiuku guangao yiben]. Ceremony to announce variousg ods in advance, as a preparation period of the ritual for the salvation of the dece...
Title of the first text: 授械(戒)天機秘語 [shoujie tianji miyu]. External cover title: 受械(戒)秘 [shoujie mi]. Magic for the ordination disciple, including: ‘give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘meeting with the deities,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tool...
Title of the first text: 壹冊煉度科 [yice liandu ke ]. External cover title: 一本破獄茭簡煉度科 [yiben poyu jiaojian liandu ke]. Instructions for sending a Messenger-Dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased, imploring the gods - assistance to the Original Masters - to break the gates of the Purgatory...
Title of the first text: 化依科 [huayi ke ]. External cover title: 一本化依科 [yiben huayi ke]. Small ceremony to make clothes for the ancestors, especially for the new/recent ancestors. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 60 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國六十七歲六月十六日開筆.
Title of the first text: 喪家天機一部 [sangjia tianji yibu ]. External cover title: 度亡天機一部 [duwang tianji yibu]. 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. Date(s) claimed in the manu...