Title of the first text: 関告敕壇科 [guangao chitan ke]. External cover title: 関告敕壇科一共 [guangao chitan ke yigong]. Compilation of two texts: Guangao and Chitan. Guangao: Text to open the ceremony. Chitan: Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent an...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本救患科 [yiben jiuhuan ke]. The story of all the deities. It is chanted to invite the deities into the house/altar: It serves to announce them to the public and to call them to join the ceremony at the same time. “This is you, this is your story, ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本招兵科 [yiben zhaobing ke]. Instructions to arrange and perform a healing/exorcist ritual in which all the bad things of the house are embodied in a chicken that it is passed around the body of the owner of the house. The people in the house cann...
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: 一本大獻接聖科 [yiben jiesheng daxian ke.] Ceremony to summon various tutelary gods. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original materi...
Title of the first text: 一本說醮科 [yiben shuojiao ke]. External cover title: 說醮科 [shuojiao ke]. 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...
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...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本小雜秘 [yiben xiao za mi]. Miscellaneous instructions of magic which ensures the salvation of the female deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 34 folios. Chinese era name (regnal y...
Title of the first text: 一本初真科 老君金語 [yiben chuzhen ke laojun jinyu]. External cover title: 初真開解經壇科 [chuzhen kaijie jingtan ke]. Opening ceremony of the small altar for the disciple. Inform the spirits and invite the Deities of the Ritual Experts. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本開山科 [yiben kaishan ke]. Instructions to “open the forest" so a new village can be built. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 20 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 無.