William Alexander Clouston

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William Alexander Clouston (1843 – 23 October 1896) was a

folklorist from Orkney.[1]

A Supplement to Alliborne's Dictionary (1891, pp. 349–350), as quoted in Folklore,[1] gives the following biographical information:

b. 1843, at

R. F. Burton
's "Supplemental Arabian Nights" analogues and variants of some of the tales in vols. I-III.

Bibliography

Popular Tales and Fictions their Migrations and Transformations, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1887

A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories, Privately Printed, 1889.

  • Arabian Poetry for English Readers
  • Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
  • Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
  • The Book of Noodles: Stories Of Simpletons; Or, Fools And Their Follies
  • The Book of Sindibad, 1884, 300 privately printed copies.
  • 'Notes on the folk-lore of the Raven and the Owl,' in:
    OCLC 2726479
    .

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