The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer's Treasure

This book was clearly a labor of love--Mr. Leitao must be lauded for his edition of this Roman Catholic grimoire. Am not certain if this is a "complete" Book of St. Cyprian, but what is, exactly? This is not the fine book that, I believe, Stephen Skinner and Rankine put out (am going on memory here), but is instead the, or maybe a, version of the Catholic Iberian grimoire. It's involved in more earthy things, such as findin' treasure, gettin' help from God and the Saints, etc., etc. Mr. Leitao probably did not make a killin' off of this book, but he should have! The extra material he added is alone worth the cost of this book. Now, your old uncle don't know how much you can use this in your work (maybe a little, maybe a lot), but I've never been sorry I bought it.

A "living" book full of interesting content for both the serious occultist and the curious academic. Though the author puts what may sometimes seem like too personal of a spin on narrative commentary, it is a passionate piece of work that seems well researched and packed full of information. There is bound to be something for just about anyone with any degree of occult or magic(k)al interests.This is not the slant little Cyprian grimoire you have in Spanish or Portuguese, but a hefty (English) composite volume that the author clearly put his foot in to bring to you as one cohesive work.

I was expecting something closer to the popular Spanish "libro infernal" but this is a very different Portugese text.That said this book is far more than I expected with highly extensive commentary.If you are looking for an introduction to Iberian folk magic...this the book to get.

Excellent book! Researched and written by a true mystic, wizard and esotericist. A must have for your collection.

some call it the most eveil book ever written! regardless! its a good read with amazing spells!$

I have no wordy review for this book. It is excellent. If one is interested in Iberian or folk Catholic magic, this is a valuable asset to one's personal research library.

The translator does a better job rendering a book out of Portuguese than I could, for sure; but it appears that his English isn't the best, as there are a lot of errors. For example, he doesn't appear to know the English word "oration" (or "prayer" might be just as good a word) and so uses instead the obsolete term "orison" in its place, which is extra obnoxious since the word comes up A LOT in this text. Page 63 we get, for example, "Orison of the Custodian Angel." He also has a bad habit of making you check the footnotes to gain information that would have been unnecessary had he translated the word correctly in the first place.The book itself is mostly of value, to me anyway, as a historical text. There are a lot of old spells, such as one finds in Hyatt's collection of hoodoo spells, that make so much more sense after you read the original forms in this text!There's conflicting information available about whether it was the choice of the translator or the choice of the original publication being translated from to promise a recipe and then leave out the actual method due to its being 'too evil' -- so I'm just going to remark that it does that, in the book, and leave it up in the air as to who should be blamed.

Powerful translation. Worth the money. Definitely Iberian.