This book brings to light the Smyrnaean spells, potions, and charms, an occult world that had remained hermetically sealed for centuries.
This world was well known to those, the Witches of Smyrna, but they never revealed it. With absolute secrecy, the magic, the words, the materials were passed from mouth to mouth, from mother to daughter, from witch to witch. Each one accumulated her own experiences and her own special knowledge on what she inherited: spells, charms, powders, potions, bindings, and unbindings for every human desire, for every human pain, for every unfulfilled hope.
This is precisely the knowledge the author attempts to gather in this book. Her intention was not to write a simplistic manual on magic, but to compile and harmonize the occult fragments of our folk tradition into a reference book that reveals for the first time an unseen but real world.