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The Magical Uses of Salt
If you had to choose just one magickal tool to have on hand, make it salt.
Salt has the widest range of spiritual and metaphysical uses of anything else around. It is considered to be a sacred substance and has been associated with every type of religion.
You may use it for cleansing, banishing, protecting, grounding, centering, purification, fertility, luck, prosperity, business success, stability and more. If you have an old ritual that calls for blood, use saltwater instead.
Salt -- whether common table salt, sea salt, or kosher salt -- has a long history of use in rituals of purification, magical protection, and blessing. Among spell-casters working in the European folk-magic tradition, it is a commonplace to lay down a pinch of salt in each corner of a room before performing a spell. This has carried over into contemporary African-American 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 saltpeter 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.
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.
Additionally, because ritual cleaning is an important facet of African folk-magic, salt is a common ingredient in African-Americanhoodoo spells in which magical protection from evil and breaking enemy work (especially "live things" or tricks under the skin) is accomplished through the employment of ritual baths and floor washes.
Salt repels any form of negative energy, even evil astral energies.
Add salt to banishing incense, powders or washes for added energy.
If you feel weighted down with negative energy, a salt scrub will efficiently remove it and send it on its way.
Sprinkling salt in a circle around you creates the perfect protective environment to perform magick.
To keep unwanted visitors from returning to your home, simple sprinkle salt on the doorstep as they leave.
Purify gemstones by placing them in a bowl of saltwater for about a week.
Add salt to pouches and hang them on a door wreath to attract money.
A little salt in doorways and on windowsills protects your home from negative energy.
A salt bath cleanses and purifies and prepares one for magickal workings.
Salt left with the deceased represents the immortal spirit and ensures peace in the afterlife.
The old saying goes, "Never allow your household to run out of salt because this implies running out of money."
This involves the use of SALT. This can be ordinary table salt, sea salt, rock salt or any other form of salt available. The purifying properties of salt have been recognised by millions of people throughout all ages
uses include seasoning, for cleansing crystals, magic mirrors, purification, consecration, grounding, protection magic and ritual.
A friend put her candlee in salt water...dry well before burning it.
These are from the Hyatt files.....
In floor wash 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.
SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR PUTTING ENEMIES UNDER YOUR FEET
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.
SALT AND SALTPETER BATH FOR UNDOING TRICKS
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
Peace, Romana
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