Ship, horseshoe on mast of, 74. Shoes removed at threshold: of mosks, 123; of churches in Abyssinia, 130. Shoo King, Chinese, reference to, 158. Shooter, Joseph: cited, 28. Shores of sea as boundaries, 178. Shortland, Edward, quotation from, 93. Shrines: sacred doorways in front of, in China, Japan, Korea, 104; in Siam, India, 105; at doorway in Babylonia, in Assyria, 105; in Egypt, 106; of Kitzuki, of Isé, of Kikkō, threshold customs at, 125 f. Siam, doorways near temples in, 104. Sibree, James: cited, 38. Sicily, prominence of door in, 107. Sidon, consul at, reference to, 70. Sign of red hand. See _Red hand_. Silvanus, god of boundaries, 171, 173. Silver hand worn by children, 76. “Silver Threshold,” temple of, in Thebes, 127. Sin, Moon-god, references to, 80, 154. Sinai: Moses in wilderness of, 160 f.; peninsula of, boundary marks in, 179, 184. Sioux, red hand among, 87. Sippara, sanctity of doorway in, 108 f. _Sippu_, Assyrian word for threshold, 110 f., 209. _Sirim_, Hebrew for hinges, 253. Sitting on threshold not allowed in Russia, 12. Siva: hand as symbol of, 78, 198; temple of, at Thâvesar, 157; crowned with serpent, 236. Skarpanto, threshold custom in, 31. Skeat, Rev. Walter W.: cited, 265. Skertchley, J.A.: cited, 245. Skins stamped with red hand among American Indians, 83. Slave, Hebrew, adoption of, as member of family, 210. Slavic: custom of covenanting, 42; citadel made firm by immuring child in walls, 50; peoples, “Death Week” among, 19. Smith, Dr. William: cited, 7, 73, 134, 172 f., 236 f., 263. See, also, _Smith and Cheetham_. Smith, W. Robertson: quotation from, 59 f.; cited, 209, 214, 231 f. Smith, George: cited, 109. Smith and Cheetham: cited, 222. Snakes. See _Serpents_. Sneezing on threshold unpropitious, 11. Sneferu in Sinaitic Peninsula, 178 f. Snell, Rev. A., reference to, 140. Sodom: reference to king of, 82; angels welcomed in, 211. Soko at Tangier, reference to, 52. Somali tribes, sacrifice at threshold among, 27. Somnauth, idol in temple of, shattered and placed under threshold, 123. Sophocles: cited, 133. Sorcery, prominence of threshold in, 17 f. Sources of rivers as boundaries, 178. South America: doorways smeared with blood in, 73; earliest form of temple in, 144; reverence for phallic emblems in, 230; serpent as religious symbol in, 235. South Sea Islands, temples of, 148. Sovereigns in ancient East represented by uplifted hand, 79 f. Spain, reverence for phallic emblems in, 230. Spanish Jews, significance of red hand among, 76. Spectator, The, reference to, 19. Spencer, Herbert, references to, 21, 98. Spiritual forces, conception of, characteristic of man, 223. Spitting on threshold unpropitious, 11. Spivak, Dr.: cited, 93. Sprenger, A: cited, 164, 200. Squier, Hon. E.G.: cited, 230, 235.