held over threshold after baptism, 18 f.; buried in ramparts of Copenhagen, 49; buried under citadel of Dyetinets, 50; adopted into family by clasping hands in Babylonia, 80; striking, on birthday, 176. Children: custom of, relative to boundary lines, 13; buried under threshold in Russia, 18; buried in foundations, 49 f.; sacrifice of, in Central America, 145. China: body to be removed over wall, 23; fire on threshold in marriage in, 39; bride worshiping at altar-fire in, 41; human sacrifice to make sure foundations in, 48; coins and charms under door-sill in, 71; sacred inscriptions on side-posts and lintel in, 71; tutelar gods of threshold in, 95 f.; temple and house in architecture, 101; doorways apart from temples in, 104; sacredness of temple in, 158; nuptial customs of, 196; phallic emblems in, 230; marriage customs in, 245. Chinese: custom of avoiding threshold, 23 f.; native clergyman, testimony of, 48; year, festival of fifth month of, 71; junk, sacrifice on bow of, 71 f.; honorary portals and ancestral tablets, 108; classics, most ancient of, 185; emperor passing boundary line of empire, 185; characters for threshold, door, border, and woman, 256. “Chinese gods of the threshold,” 96. Chipiez, Charles. See _Perrot and Chipiez_. “Christ, spouse of,” 222. “Christening” ship, custom of, 8. Christian: lands, niches for heroes in, survival primitive doorway in tomb in, 108; passover, reference to, 216. Christian churches: of Europe, burials under altar of, 25; tradition of burial of lamb under altar of, 56; symbol of horseshoe at threshold of, 74. Christian Fathers, reference to, 97. Christians: inscribed gates of, in East, 70; in Syria, sign of hand among, 76 f.; warned not to dishonor their gates with laurel crowns, 97; admonished not to make their gates heathen temples, 98; kissing threshold of church in Persia, 124. Church House in Philadelphia, reference to, 55. Church of England bishops replying to Presbyterians on position of baptismal font, 137. Churches always on hill or in grove in Abyssinia, 130 f. Cicero, hearth-fire and Penates in time of, 41. Cimon, gate of, in Propylæa, 159. Circumcision as practiced in Madagascar, 149. Cities of refuge: Hebrew law as to, 151; in Hawaii, 151. Clapping of hands at threshold in Japan, 126. Classic writers: their explanation of threshold custom, 39. “Cleansing the threshold” at wedding in Russia, 32. Clement of Alexandria, reference to, 239. Clothing stamped with red hand, 87. Coal under threshold among Magyars, 19 f. Cock sacrificed: in Ireland, 21; at foundation in Russia, 54 f. Cockle, Montague, reference to, 233. Coffee as Muhammadan substitute for blood, 5. Columbian Exposition, reference to, 57. Com, tomb of kings of Persia at, 124. Comanches: