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French publisher, bookseller, astrologer and folklorist known under the pen name Pierre Saintyves (P. Saintyves, sometimes incorrectly given as Paul Saintyves). He was President of the Society of French Folklore (Société de folklore français et de folklore colonial), director of Revue du folklore français and Revue anthropologique, as well as Maître de conférences at the School of Anthropology, Paris. P. Saintyves is credited with the hypothesis that many common folktales originate in pagan rituals, published in his Les Contes de Perrault et les récits parallèles, 1923. He also wrote Manuel de folklore (1936), Pierres magiques: bétyles, haches-amulettes et pierres de foudre: traditions savantes et traditions populaires (1936), and L'astrologie populaire étudiée spécialement dans les doctrines et les traditions relatives à l'influence de la Lune (Paris, 1937). He died on 27 April 1935 in Paris, aged 64. Link to Wikipedia biography