General Uses of Salt in Rituals

There are different types of salts and each type has its specific magical abilities. In this article, we shall look at the different types of salt and their uses in rituals.  

The use of salt in Wicca and Hoodoo practices is a very old tradition. However, salt is used by the everyday person to assist in “magical” challenges! In ancient Egypt, salt was considered a sacred product offered to the gods. In addition, salt was used for embalming royalties. In Rome, salt is a symbol of wisdom and is used in rituals of baptism. During the Middle Ages, it was used to ward off evil spirits. People were putting salt in the chimneys of houses to prevent demons from entering. In Latin America, salt is used to prepare a very important magical formula called Rattlesnake Salt which is believed to lengthen life and to provide protection for the home or place of business.

Different types of salt and their uses in rituals

White Salt

The white salt usually come as kosher, coarse and table salt. They are often very affordable and can be found in stores around. The white salt is an all-purpose salt which can be added to meals, spells, and other ritual workings. It is also used for banishing, protection, healing and absorbing negativity.

Black Salt

This salt is usually composed of cauldron scrapings, charcoal and salt. It is mostly used for defensive workings because it creates a protective barrier. It can also be used in banishment and hex breaking rituals.

Himalayan Salt

Have you heard of the Pink Himalayan salt? This substance is a rock salt from the Punjab region in Pakistan. It is rich in Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Calcium and Chloride. In ritual workings, this salt is used for cleansing and healing.

Sea Salt

When performing rituals involving seas, ocean, lakes and rivers, the sea salt is a common ingredient used as offerings to the water spirits.

Yellow salt:

It is a type of salt used for the invocation of spirits, and in rituals to attract money.

Blue salt:

It is often used mixed with other elements in rituals to accelerate someone’s healing or to appease and reassure.

Red salt:

A mixture of sea salt with sediments of volcanic clay. It is used in rituals and baths of love, passion and sexual attraction.

Green salt:

Composed of ammonium platinum chloride, is used in baths and rituals of love, to achieve loyalty and fidelity.

Violet salt:

Violet salt is a special sea salt that is used in rituals of dominion, and in baths to dominate a person.

General Magical Uses of Salt in Rituals

• Take a pinch of consecrated salt and spray it at the threshold of your house to banish negative entities from your environment. Also, it will keep away people with bad intentions from your home.
• Put some salt into your pocket before going for a job interview or while going for an examination. It will banish ill luck and bring you good luck.
• When you return home after a busy day, you can put some salt and soap on a washcloth. Scrub your feet and body with this mixture to remove the harmful vibrations accumulated throughout the day.
• If you want more money, place some salt, laurel, and rosemary in a cloth pouch at the entrance to your apartment or home. You can also place it at the entrance to your workplace or store to attract customers.
• If you are being haunted by evil entities that prevent you from sleeping at night, surround your bed with a thin layer of salt. This layer will protect you from negative energies and grant you cool sleep.

 A salt ritual against Envy

Get a photograph of yourself and place it on a flat red and clean surface. Spray concentrated coarse salt around the picture and leave it there for a week. On a daily basis, add a pinch of salt to the circle while meditating on your intention to drive away envy from your life. After seven days, throw the salt into a drain and store the photograph on your bedside table.

A salt ritual against an ENEMY

On a waning moon night, fill a glass cup with fine alcohol and dilute a spoonful of fine, consecrated salt. On a 7cm x 7cm white paper, write the name of your enemy in red ink, fold it into three and place it inside the jar. Then close and leave it for seven days. After the last day, burn the paper and throw the ashes and liquid into a stream.

Hoodoo Magical Use of Salt in Rituals

Among spell-casters working in the European folk-magic tradition, it is commonplace to lay down a pinch of salt in each corner of a room before performing a spell. This has carried over into hoodoo practice as well.  Generally speaking, when the intention of a hoodoo spell is primarily protective, salt may be used alone or combined with ingredients like saltpetre and black pepper. For more aggressive spells against enemies, such as Hot Foot and Crossing, salt may be added to red pepper, sulphur, and bluestone.

Conjure name Harry Middleton Hyatt had the following comments and suggestions about the use of salt in Hoodoo Practices

#1 SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR UNDOING TRICKS

1457. A person dat been tricked in de skin it’s something dat is buried for ’em or laid down on de steps for ’em — de house been dressed. You take nine teaspoonful of cooking salt, you take one dime {‘s worth}, of saltpeter, use dat, and eight quarts of water, hot water — just like water for a bath. You pull off all of your clothes, ever’thing you got on, you get in there and take a bath in dat same water nine times.

(What do you mean nine times? All at once or different times?)

Dat same water — don’t throw dat water away, you keep it in something like you take a bath in. Never rub upwards — always rub from here down [demonstrates].

(From your face right down.)

From there down. A person whut’s been tricked in de skin, rub from here down and use dat water nine times, and de last time you use dat water, take it and throw it towards de sunrise, soon in the morning before the sun rise, so you get rid of dat complaint. Ah’m telling you whut’s done happened to me.

[Mobile, Ala., (679), 905:2.]

#2 SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR PUTTING ENEMIES UNDER YOUR FEET

1458. Now, if — when yo’ wanta be lucky an’ stay lucky so yo’ kin jest — yo’ know, thrive and have prosperity, yo’ git chew a nickel worth of saltpeter an’ a tablespoonful of that and put it into yore water, five quarts of water an’ take a tablespoonful of table salt an’ mix with that an’ let it boil down.

An’ after yo’ gets dat five quarts of water, yo’ heat it. Whenever it start tuh, look like it gon’a boil, yo’ jest stir this salt an’ brimstone together an’ then when yo’ begin tuh lie down {at night}, yo’ take yore bath with it. An’ when yo take yore bath with it, yo’ save dat water an’ throw it east. An’ every time yo’ throw yo’ explain lak dis — say, “Lord, moves { = removes} thine evil influence.” An’ that [is called] puttin’ de enemies under yore feet.

[Waycross, Ga., (1118, small-time root woman), 1796:1]

#3 SALT AND BLACK PEPPER FLOOR WASH FOR PROTECTION

1459. The best thing you do, when you go out early in the morning, if you got — before you leave your home, if you feel that such as that is carrying on around you, you take such an ordinary thing as — take salt, black pepper, and mix that together in a bottle, and scrub your place out.

Don’t scrub it inward, see. Always scrub out from your place.

And with that water you mix salt and black pepper and scrub every morning before the sun rise. Make that a habitual habit to scrub in the morning before the sun rise — every morning scrub out your door before de sun rise, and that will give you a natural protection against anything that’s evil. Somebody’s put something against you, down for you, that will give you protection against that.

[New Orleans, La., (828), 1214:4.]

#4 WITCHCRAFT DIVINATION BY MEANS OF SALT AND A CURSE

9446. Ah’ve hear’d dat if a person come tuh yuh home an’ yo’ figuh [figure] dat dey are not dere fo’ de right purpose, dat aftah dey leave out, chew kin take a han’ful of salt an’ throw out behin’ dem. An dey won’t come dere agin if dey have anythin’ of ’em lak witchcraft.

[Waycross, Ga., (1061), 1720:5.]

9447. Dey say if yo’ don’ want a man an’ if a man come out chure house — ah don’ know what dey [do but] ah know yo’ kin keep ’em from yo’ house. Yo’ kin take jis as he come out dere an’ jis’ take some pot salt an’ chunk ’em aft’ ’em [after them], [saying], “Yo’ son of a bitch, don’ come back heah no mo’.” An’ he’ll nevah come back tuh yuh house no mo.”

(I see, you throw the salt after them.)

[Charleston, S. Car., (497) 539:4.]

{These two spells go together, but numer 9447 is a bit more difficult for modern ears to parse than number 9446. Perhaps i can be of assistance by defining a few of the speaker’s regionalisms:

(1) “pot salt” is cooking salt or table salt, as opposed to block salt or rock salt for use about the farm.

(2) “chunk ’em” (sometimes spelled “chuck ’em”) means “throw them” — it does not refer to chunks of salt. Furthermore, “throwing after,” “throwing behind” and “throwing for” are black slang terms that refer to deploying magical items, as will be seen below.

Here is the previous spell again:

9446. Ah’ve hear’d dat if a person come tuh yuh home an’ yo’ figuh [figure] dat dey ar not dere fo’ de right purpose, dat aftah dey leave out, chew kin take a han’ful of salt an’ throw out behin’ dem. An dey won’t come dere agin if dey have anythin’ of ’em lak witchcraft. [Waycross, Ga., (1061), 1720:5.]

#5 WITCHRAFT DIVINATION BY MEANS OF SALT AND A CURSE

9447. They say if you don’t want a man around your house because you suspect him of witchcraft and if you see him coming out of your house — you are thinking, “i don’t know what he is doing there,” but you do know how you can keep witches from you house, so you just take some cooking salt and throw it after him, saying a simple curse, such as, “You son of a bitch, don’t come back here again.” And if he is a witch, he’ll never come back to your house again.”

{Here is the core of the salt-and-curse spell in a nutshell:

{Problem: Someone whom you know from the local community is seen leaving your home.

{Question: How do you determine what the intruder’s intention really was?

{Answer: As soon as the person leaves, you throw table salt on the path after him and curse him and IF THE PERSON IS A WITCH, he won’t be able to come back.

{Mechanism: Thrown salt and a spoken curse are a diagnostic magical tool (and only secondarily a warding) because a witch will not be able to return along the salted path.

{These two witchcraft-divination spells are subsidiary, specialized forms of the general protection spell that utilizes salt, cursing, or salt-and-cursing to keep witches out of one’s home. Throwing salt and cursing after a witch (singly or in combination) is Germano-British in origin. Since slavery times it has also become a staple spell in the African-American community, where the salt is sometimes mixed with black pepper, which is an African belief-survival.

Source:

• https:// tarot pugs. com/2017/08/11/ salt-for-magick-spells/
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• https://www. 123rf.  com/ photo_15978994_green-salt-for-baths-as-a-background.html

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