Emmanuel-Napoléon Santini de Riols

Emmanuel-Napoléon Santini de Riols was born in 1847. He belongs to the generation of late 19th-century authors who emerged during a renewed interest in occult sciences, ancient religious traditions, and popular practices, at a time when these fields were widely circulated in French publishing, balancing scholarly curiosity and practical literature. Active mainly in the last decades of the 19th century, Santini de Riols published several works dealing with ancient prayers, ritual recipes, religious traditions adapted for operative purposes, and practices derived from Christian and pre-Christian popular heritage. His texts blend liturgical Latin, everyday French, and formulations drawn from heterogeneous sources, sometimes scholarly, sometimes clearly transmitted orally or compiled from older works.