River of Threshold, 182. Roberts, Joseph: cited, 95, 122. Robes stamped with red hand among American Indians, 83. Rocky Pytho, reference to, 133. Rod at door, stepping over, 123. Rodd, Rennell: cited, 27, 30 f., 38; quotation from, 52 f. Roman: Penates at threshold or hearth, 23; architect on proportions of temple, 36; custom of placing statues under foundations, 55 f.; custom of affixing spoils and trophies of war to lintels, 73; temples, position of altar in, 134; empire, mile-posts in, 176; empire, threshold of, 258. Roman Catholic Church on marriage, 222. Roman Catholic churches, holy water in, in America, 147. Rome: lifting bride over threshold in, 39; bride worshiping at altar-fire in, 41; images under foundations in, 55 f.; “gods of entrances” in, 97; reference to religion of, 97; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; pine cone found in, 257; ceremonies at founding of, 264 f. Romulus, founder of Rome, 264 f. Rongo, first-born son of Vatea and Papa, reference to, 152. Roscommon, county of, Druidical altar in, 81. Rosenmüller, Ernst F.K.: cited, 78. Roumania, bat and coin under threshold in, 20. Rous’s Archæologia Attica, reference to, 39. Rubbing foreheads on “stone of desire” at Baveddeen, 125. Russia: welcoming guest with bread and salt in, 9; reverence for threshold in, 12; threshold observances in, 18, 31 f.; stillborn children buried under threshold in, 18; sacrifice to “Vodyaour” in, 19; household deity abiding behind stove in, 23; concerning dead and threshold in, 24; marriage custom among Mordvins in, 41; crossing altar-fire in, 42; death following building of new house in, 54; “upper corner” of house sacred in, 54 f.; disputed boundary lines in, 175. Ruth, reference to, 64. Ruthennu, land of the, reference to, 180.