External cover title and title of the first text: 說醮科一本 [shuojiao ke yiben]. Magic to make the altars into gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, and food. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 52 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 民國千子年庚寅歲七...
Title of the first text: 老君金語 道教初真頭 師教授戒秘語尾 [laojun jinyu daojiao chuzhen tou shijiao shoujie miyu wei]. External cover title: 師道授戒秘語共冊 [shidao shoujie miyu gongce ]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 巳未年潤七月初二完筆. Calendar note...
External cover title and title of the first text: 一本迓王科 [yiben yawang ke ]. Instructions to organize the food for the dead in the Purgatory. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 庚午年四月十三日啟,七月十四日完. Calendar note: Stem-branches system or 60-years cycle: Three plausible dates: 1810 / 1870 / 1930. ...
External cover title and title of the first text: 大會科 [dahui ke]. Magic to build the altars in this side and the Otherworld for the Tjeang Daeh. The altars are transformed into wealth, fruitful lands, and palaces. Magic to make the lao pet lao tee red and white houses of Tei Mu. It also make th...
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: 南昌煉度科 [nanchang liandu ke ]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second de...
Title of the first text: 斎亡金語 [zhaiwang jinyu]. External cover title: 一本大亡秘 [yiben da wangmi]. 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 manuscript: 乙亥年十...
External cover title and title of the first text: 小煉式 小煉符四十七道 [xiaolianshi xiaolianfu sishiqidao ]. Compilation of spells used in the ritual for the deceased. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 22 folios. Date(s) claimed in the manuscript: 嘉慶十八年十九月?十五日立.
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: 一本茭簡科 重集破獄科 [yiben jiaojianke chongji poyu ke]. Instructions including sending the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the deceased and to let the...
External cover title and title of the first text: 茭簡 破獄 讚才樓科 [jiaojian poyu zancailou ke]. Compilation of three texts: Jiao jian, Po yu, Zan cai lou. Jiao jian: Instructions to send the messenger dragon to the Purgatory to wake up the dead and let them know that the secondary death ritual is ta...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: [解冤 破獄 謝雷水符] [[jieyuan poyu xielei shuifu]]. Instructions to perform exorcist-healing ceremonies. The hon/soul of the patient was captured by a non-social Deity such as Dei...