Levy, Rabbi Jacob: cited, 208. Libation of water offered on threshold, 16 f., 29. Liberia: fowl sacrificed to welcome guest in, 9; nuptial customs of, 196. Liberian clergyman’s testimony regarding threshold custom, 39. Liddell and Scott: cited, 208. Liebenstein, castle of, made fast by burying child, 49. Life: new, outgrowth of truth of primal threshold covenant, 226; tree of, symbol of feminine nature, 230; goddess of, in Egypt and Assyria, 234. Lifting bride over threshold: among Towkas, 35; in Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, 38; in Greece, Rome, and West Africa. 39; in Russia, England, Scotland, Ireland, and United States, 44; in Central America, 45. _Limen_, Jerome’s word for _saph_, 207. Limentinus, threshold god of Romans, 97. Lindisfarne Abbey, marriage customs at, 141. _Linga in yoni_, symbol of Siva’s worship, 198, 236. Lintel: hand in dough impressed on, in Upper Syria, 28 f.; smeared with honey and water, 30; blood on, 66, 68; inscriptions as to sacredness of, 66, 68; blood stains above, 67; symbolic figures on, 70; sentences written on, in China, 71; Romans affixing spoils of battle on, 73; red hand on, 74; red hand on, in Babylonia, 75; ornamentation of, in ancient Egypt, 100; image of Horus on, 127; kissed by pious in Abyssinia, 131; decorations on, and above, 146; blood on, as protection for house, 206; and two side-posts, God passing over, 210. Lithuania, wooden cross placed under threshold in, 18. Littleton, Sir Thomas: cited, 140. London, horseshoes on threshold of houses in ancient, 74. Loong-moo, sacrifice of fowl in honor of divinity, among Chinese, 71 f. “Lord of the great city,” god Nergal as, 113. Lot welcoming angels, 211. Lotus flower: in religious symbolisms, 230; reference to, 234; symbol of fecundity, 257. “Louping stone,” 142. Lowell, Percival: cited, 104, 126, 201. _Lubare_, offering to, in Uganda, 15. Lubbock, Sir John: cited, 39. Luncz, A.M., quotations from, 67, 76. Lund’s Every-day Life in Scandinavia: reference to, 7, 12. Lystra, temple of Jupiter at, reference to, 135.