CUSTOMS
(See also Culture; Holidays; Traditions)
accepting hospitality: w18.03 18
Bible authenticity: it-1 312
Bible times:
beard: it-1 267, 1020-1021; w15 11/1 9
burial: it-1 482-483, 722; w89 11/15 25
child care in a polygamous family: it-1 32
deeds to property: it-1 608; w07 3/15 11
eating: it-1 217, 219; it-2 356; w13 8/15 29
gifts: it-1 934-935; w15 3/1 13-14
hair: it-1 1020-1021
head covering: it-1 1052-1053
king’s concubines: it-1 495, 1224; it-2 988
marriage: it-1 1183; it-2 340-343; w06 10/15 18-19; w95 7/15 11-12
mourning: it-1 563, 1021; it-2 446-447, 834-835
ripping of garments: it-2 813-814; w14 4/15 32
washing of hands: it-2 356
whitewashing graves: it-1 489, 995
women captives: it-1 655
Christian attitude toward customs: mwb25.09 2; w04 5/15 27; g00 1/8 26-27; w98 10/1 19-23; kl 49-50; w91 10/15 22-23; w88 8/15 30; w87 2/1 3-7
conscience of others: w19.04 17
customs at birth: w05 1/1 27-29
customs at death: w19.04 16-18; w09 2/15 29-32; w05 1/1 27-30; sp 19-20; g99 2/8 10-11; w98 7/15 20-24; w98 10/1 19-20; w95 8/15 28-30
drinking customs: w96 12/15 25-29
giving that amounts to bribery: w03 6/15 32
holiday customs: bhs 168-170; bh 159-161; w87 6/15 20
holiday greetings: km 12/90 8
identifying unacceptable customs: w19.04 17; w09 5/1 20-21
mothers not disciplining sons: g05 2/22 7-8, 11
piñatas: g04 7/8 30; g03 9/22 23-24
providing for family: w96 10/1 29-31
remote links to false worship: g04 7/8 30; g00 1/8 26-27; g99 2/8 11; w91 10/15 30-31
selling daughters into marriage: g05 2/22 6-7
sending newborns to relatives in homeland: w16.11 17-18; w13 9/15 23-24
spiritistic customs: w09 5/1 19-21
unscriptural customs: w18.11 7, 11; w06 1/1 27-28; w95 8/15 28-30
wedding customs: lvs 180-181; lv 153-154; g02 2/8 6; fy 26; g96 12/8 23; w91 10/15 23
when there are conflicts with community or family: w19.04 17-18
death:
Africa: w19.04 16-18; w09 2/15 29-31; sp 20; yb04 188; w98 1/15 19-22; w98 7/15 20-24; g96 8/8 18-19; w95 8/15 28-30; w94 3/15 21-23; yb92 137; w90 9/1 3; g90 4/22 20
burial (ancient times): g90 6/22 25; w89 11/15 25; g88 7/8 4-5
exhumation (Madagascar): w94 10/15 5
facilitating exit of spirit (Sri Lanka): w01 7/15 3
flowers: w91 10/15 30-31
“funeral ball” (Martinique): yb98 194
funerals: w98 7/15 20-24; w98 10/1 19-20; g92 7/22 4-5; w87 2/1 3-4
jade cicada in mouth of corpse (China): g87 9/22 23
mourners cutting themselves: it-1 563; w04 9/15 27
mourning (ancient times): it-2 446-447
mourning garments: w98 7/15 22-23; sh 70
preparation of body (Israel): it-1 482-483
sex with relative of deceased mate (Africa): w02 7/1 27; w98 7/15 21; w95 8/15 29-30
small dwelling for dead at place of accident (Latin America): w94 10/15 3-4
throwing soil or flowers into or onto grave: w98 7/15 23
wakes: w98 7/15 21-24
wearing strips of white cloth (Senegal): yb98 51-52
Witness view of various customs: w19.04 16-18; w09 2/15 29-32; w05 1/1 30; rs 102-103
Yoruba people (Nigeria): we 9; g90 4/22 20
drinking:
Persians: w86 3/15 24
toasts: lvs 181; lv 154; w07 2/15 30-31
eating:
without cutlery: g03 4/8 23-25
Egypt (ancient): si 20
burial: it-1 691; g88 7/8 4-5
hair: it-1 1020; w15 11/1 9; g 11/10 16
England:
Morris dancing: g87 4/8 31
family: w87 2/1 4-6
abducting widow (Africa): yb92 137
“lending” children to relatives (Africa): w88 9/1 28-30
treatment of children: w91 10/1 29-30
friendship:
men holding hands: w98 10/1 19, 21
gifts: w95 12/15 3-4
evening guests: g91 4/22 24-26
Jewish:
Bar Mitzvah: sh 231
trimming meat: it-2 973
yarmulke: sh 231
manners:
Africa: jv 531
marriage:
bride-price: w22.02 30; w98 9/15 24-27; fy 17; g96 12/8 20-23; w89 1/15 21-24
bridging a culture gap: g88 8/22 16-20
ceremony (ancient Israel): it-1 1183; w06 10/15 18
customary marriage (tribal marriage): w06 10/15 21-22; g96 12/8 20-23
dowry: w89 1/15 21, 24
introducing wife with term “Gusai” (Japan): w89 5/15 14
lunar calendar and almanac (Japan): g88 7/22 9-11
marrying when very young: g98 6/22 13-14
rice throwing at weddings: ijwfq article 62; lvs 180; g87 3/8 29
subjection to parents following: w87 2/1 5-6
Martinique: yb98 193-194
Micronesia: w87 11/15 27
Middle East: g88 8/22 18-20
missionaries adapt to: w08 3/15 4; yb07 171; jv 531-532; w89 11/15 14
Nigeria:
facial marks: g99 1/8 23-25
prostrating oneself when greeting another: w23.02 29
San Blas Islands: w88 5/15 29-30
saying “bless you”: g90 6/8 23
Solomon Islands: yb92 231-236
‘green leafing’: w09 5/1 20-21
no clothing in some areas: yb92 231-232
relationship with spirits: w09 5/1 19, 21
Venezuela:
Dancing Devils of Yare: g98 2/8 23-24