This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 破獄交簡煉度秘 [Poyu jiaojian liandu mi]. Compilation of three texts: Poyu, Jiaojian and Liandu Mi. Poyu:The Poyu: instructions to break the Gates of Purgatory. Send the Five Armi...
External cover title and title of the first text: 壹本師道授戒秘語 [yiben shidao shoujie miyu]. Initiation ritual for the ordination of the new Daoist disciple. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 50 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 民國二十四...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本良綠金語寶全冊 [Yiben lianglv jinyu bao quance]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, frui...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. 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...
External cover title and title of the first text: 救苦延生宿啟科 [jiuku yansheng suqi ke]. Ceremony to announce variousgods in advance, as a preparation period of the ritual for the salvation of the deceased or the longevity of the living .The magic to make the deities to be born into this world (a ma...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 雜謝?水符科 [Zaxieshuifuke]. Healing ceremony for diseases caused by the Deities of the River aimed to those who feel depression (“cry near the River or want to die”) or have al...
Title of the first text: 壹冊謝境雷全本 [yice xiejing lei quanben]. External cover title: 小集秘語一本 [xiaoji miyu yiben]. Compilation of two texts. Xie Jing: Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt. (Xie) Lei: Healing ceremony for diseases caused by th...
External cover title and title of the first text: 新集大斎解訟科 [xinji dazhai jiesong ke]. Miscellaneous descriptions of the exorcist healing rituals . Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 18 folios. Chinese era name (regnal year): 太歲?庚午年巳丑月九日錄完.
External cover title and title of the first text: 謝境科 [xiejing ke]. Ceremony for the Deities of the Hunters when a hunter is repeatedly unsuccessful in his hunt. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 17 folios. Chinese era name (regnal yea...
This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 集件天機 [Jijian tianji]. Magic to make the altars for the Nyok Kaeng Maeng Yang ceremony. Altars become gold-silver-cash, house, rice field, garden, fruit trees, livestock, an...