Swearing, [167-74]. See Imprecations.
Swineherds, [157].
Syria, life in, to-day, the same as in the time of Christ, [5], [6]; life of, must be studied from the inside, [8], [10], [11]; pilgrimages still common in, [47]; events on Mount Zion and in Gethsemane illustrative of life in, [56-71]; belief in regard to tares in wheat-field, common in, [148]; hidden treasures in, [164], [165]; sitting and reclining at meals in, [224-26]; traveling in, [247-58]; the market-place in, [259-68]; caravans in, [259], [260]; drawing water in, [261]; measuring grain in, [265-68]; the housetop in, [269-77]; the vineyard and the fig tree in, [280-82]; making wine in, [282-84]; agricultural life in, [286-94]; shepherd life in, [295-309]; status of woman in, see Oriental, Woman; marriage in, [348-50]; the process of spinning in, [359-61]; snow in, [362], [363]; grinding wheat in, [400-03]. See Oriental, Syrians.
Syrian and American modes of thought, contrast between, [126], [127].
Syrian churches, [407], [408].
Syrians, attitude toward miracles, [21]; attitude toward conception and birth, [22]; customs of, at birth, [28]; attitude of, toward the stars, [31-36]; their custom of kissing, [70]; life revolves around a religious center to, [81], [82]; their daily language is Biblical, [87-90]; have no secular language, [87]; mixture of piety and hatred characteristic of, [94]; expect to be judged by what they mean, not by what they say, [115]; love to speak in pictures, [115-17]; their use of figurative language, [117]; their regard for leaven, [150]; the dialects of, [175-78]; hospitality of, [205-30]; family feasts of, [231-38]; their use of the words shelter, house, refuge, [241-45]; live for the most part out of doors, [241], [242]; have no word for home, [243]; lovers of their homes, [243]. See Oriental, Syria.
Sûhad (sleeplessness), [388], [389].
Table appointments, [222], [320].
Tares, [146-49].
Tare-sickness, [147].