Iceland, Thorolf of Norway in, 160. Idolaters, threshold and door-post of, beside Lord’s, 118. Idols: at door-altar in Mexico, 21; destroyed at gate in Meccah, Medina, and Ghuznee, 123. Image as gateway of village or cemetery in New Zealand, 107 f. Images: buried under threshold of houses, temples, and city gates, 14; in sacred “upper corner” of building in Russia, 55; under foundations in ancient Rome, 55 f.; of gods of threshold in China, 96. Imbiʾa, reference to, 60. Imgur-Bêl gate in walls of Babylon, 110. “Imposition of the Sa, the,” touch of uplifted hand of deity, 85. Incantations: mantra used in, 15; on paper placed in door-sill in Pennsylvania, 21. Incense: placed on threshold, 18; exorcism with, 18; burned on threshold in Tuscany, 42; origin of, 226. India: law of threshold in, 5 f.; sacredness of threshold in, 16; body not to cross threshold, 23; body removed through wall, 23; crossing threshold by bride in, 38; bride at altar-fire in, 41; appeals in blood at household altar in, 61; refusal to move from threshold until claim is heeded in, 61; offering to threshold god Vāttu in, 95; fire-altar center of worship in, 99; no temples in early, 100; fire-altar on threshold as place of worship in, 102; doorways apart from temples in, 104; judgments at temple threshold in, 122; bloody sacrifices at temple threshold in, 122; holy trees in Upper, 156; habit of building sanctuary in, 157; landmarks in, 169; laws of, regarding disputed boundaries, 169; visible aid of worship in, 198; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; serpent as religious symbol in, 235; marriage ceremonies in, 248; lotus symbol in, 257; religious custom in, 258. Indian Antiquary, reference to, 258. Indians: of Mexico, reference to, 21; of Yucatan, reference to, 82; red hand among American, 85-93; Natchez, religious ceremonies among, 147. Indies, East, hand as emblem of power in, 78. Indo-Aryans and boundary lines, 185. Inscription: and invocation placed at corner of building in Babylonia, 22; on gates and houses deemed protection against evil spirits, 70; at doorway in China, 71; among Greeks, 72; on tomb of kings of Persia, 124; showing sanctity of temple doorways in Asia, 109. Instructress in matrimony in China, 40. Invocations: on images buried under threshold, 14; and deposits at threshold in Babylonia, 22. Iona cathedral built in human blood, 50. Ionia, pillar as threshold stone in, 180. Ioways, red hand among, 87. Ireland: sacrifice in, 21; lifting bride over threshold in, 44; human skeletons in round towers in, 50; print of five fingers on “druidical altar” in, 81; mode of marriage in, 142 f. Irenæus: cited, 239. Iron as guard against evil spirits, 17. Isé: temples of, modeled on primeval hut, 101;