prominence of red hand among, 87; reference to, 88. Communion feasts, origin of, 226. Concord, beating bounds in, 176. Conder, Maj. C.R.: quotation from, 10, 28 f.: cited, 123. Confucius, reference to, 256 f. Confucian temple, doorways apart from, 104. Congo River, boundary pillar erected in mouth of, 182. Constantinople, red hand stamp in, 77. Contemporary Review, reference to, 229. Convent, trace of foundation sacrifice in rebuilding, 56. Cook, Capt. James: cited, 202; quotation from, 250 f. Coote, H.C.: cited, 50, 55 f. Copenhagen, immuring of child in ramparts of, 49. Copts, sacrifice of sheep at threshold among, 26, 45. Coral hand as talisman among Jews at Tunis, 79. Cord stretched across door to prevent bridal couple entering, 33 f. Corn: and water used in threshold ceremony, 16 f.; mixed with milk and sugar as offering, 17; thrown on bride at threshold in Rhodes, 31. Corner-stone: laying as survival of primitive sacredness, 22; recognized as beginning or limit of threshold of Babylonian buildings, 22; ceremonies in civilized lands, 55; laying of, in America, 55, 147. Cornhill Magazine, reference to, 48-50, 56. Corinthian Christians, Paul to, 216. Corpse: not to cross threshold in India, China, and Italy, 23 f., in Alaska, 24; passed out under threshold in Russia, 24. Correspondences of legends of Babylonia, Syria, Egypt and Greece as to door and threshold, 115. Cossacks, disputes over boundary lines among, 175. Cotton seeds thrown on bride at threshold in Rhodes, 31. Coulanges, Numa D.F. de: cited, 41, 99, 156. Covenant: through blood in Egypt, 3; Syria, 3-5; symbolized by uplifted hand, 81; sacrifice at threshold with God of life, 94; worship place of, 165. Covenanting: by crossing threshold, 5-10; by stepping over blood on door-sill, 9. Cow: gift from sacred, in India, 16; driven over iron bar on threshold, 17; sacrifice of, in Ireland, 21. Cowdung cake at seed-time in India, 16. Cranch, C.P., quotation from, 130. Croix, de la, J.F., reference to, 124. Cross: sign of, in curing disorder, 18; drawn on threshold to keep off hags, 18; under threshold of new house in Lithuania, 18. Crowbar at threshold, 17. _Crux ansata_ or _ankh_, 201. Cunningham, Alexander: reference to, 156 f. Curse: for removing threshold altar, 169 f.; for removal of neighbor’s landmark, 170. Curtea de Argest, superstition regarding sacrifice at building of, 52. Curtin, Jeremiah: cited, 142 f. Cushing, Frank H., communication from, 86-93. Cyprus: fowl sacrificed at door in, 27; prominence of door in, 107. Cyrus, reference to, 154.