Some Salt Superstitions and folk lore.
Salt was often thought to have magical qualities. It
preserved food from going bad, it kept people healthy and it could cure some
ills. One superstition was that if you accidentally spilled salt you would have
bad luck if you did not throw a pinch over your left shoulder. One tradition
has it that good spirits stand behind a person’s right and bad spirits on the
left. By tossing a few grains of salt over your left shoulder in to the eyes of
the bad spirit, it will distract him from any evil he might be planning.
Salt could also protect you from evil. If you wear a sachet
of salt around your neck, evil spirits will be kept away. Salt tossed at a
vampire will keep it away. It is also said that if two people eat salt together
a bond is formed. Arabs have a traditionally used salt to seal a bargain.
Most cultures have superstitions dealing with salt and terms
like “worth his salt” or if a person is “below the salt” (a person of the lower
class) are quite prevalent. You can take this blog “with a grain of salt” if you
like, but there are a lot of salty phases out there. 8-)
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