The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

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];