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...
External cover title and title of the first text: 早晚救患燈延秘語 [zaowan jiuhuan dengyan miyu]. Miscellaneous instructions of exorcistic healing rituals and visualization practices. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 25 folios. Chinese era na...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 諸天秘雜百解小部語冊 [Zhu tian miza baijie xiaobu yuce]. Miscellaneous descriptions including a namelist of the gods, and other exorcistic healing rituals. Custodial history: Privat...
Title of the first text: 煉度科 [liandu ke]. External cover title: 一本煉度科 [yiben liandu ke]. Instructions to purify/cleanse the bodies of the ancestors once they have been rescued from the Purgatory during the second death ritual. In the last part of this ceremony, they are rescued and can join th...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 迓王判亡科 [Yawang panwang ke]. Ceremony to provide an offering to the kings in the hell, ensuring the salvation of the deceased. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent...
External cover title and title of the first text: 度亡天機一本 [duwang tianji yiben]. 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. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and form...
Title of the first text: 一本黃泉秘語 [yiben huangquan miyu]. External cover title: 一本黃泉秘 [yiben huangquan mi]. 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...
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: 壹本符吏敕壇宿啟設醮科 [yiben fuli chitan suqi shejiao ke.] Instructions to collect the 10 Bad Spirits. The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a ma...
External cover title and title of the first text: 道教受戒秘語 [daojiao shoujie miyu]. Magic for the ordination tjai sei. ‘Give the armies,’ ‘conceive the spirit-baby,’ ‘open the eyes of the novice,’ ‘shoot [cleanse] the boy,’ ‘give the tools to the boy’ and ‘take off the clothes magic.’. Custodial ...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 禮境三朝科一本 [Lijing sanchao ke yiben]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt. Custodial history: Private collection. Ex...