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  2. Spilling salt - Wikipedia

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    Four salt shakers with salt spilled from the open one A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen . However, salt has had a variety of meanings in religions around the world.

  3. Blessed salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt may also be blessed for use as a sacramental, using the exact same prayer for it when preparing holy water. This salt may be sprinkled in a room, across a threshold, or in other places as an invocation of divine protection. This is believed to keep demons and possessed persons away and from crossing a line made of salt. It may also be ...

  4. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    Spirit of wine (concentrated ethanol; called aqua vitae or spiritus vini) 🜈 (), S.V. or πŸœ‰ Amalgam (alloys of a metal and mercury) πŸ› = a͞a͞a, Θ§Θ§Θ§ (among other abbreviations). Cinnabar (mercury sulfide) πŸœ“ Vinegar (distilled) πŸœ‹ (in Newton) Vitriol (sulfates) πŸœ– [5] Black sulphur (residue from sublimation of sulfur) 🜏 [7]

  5. Salting the earth - Wikipedia

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    Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book ...

  6. Lot's wife - Wikipedia

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    A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4] A second one is shown to tourists across the Dead Sea, in Jordan, not far from the ruins of the Byzantine Monastery of St Lot. [5] The Talmud states that a blessing should be said at the place where the pillar of salt is.

  7. Matthew 5:13 - Wikipedia

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    The exact meaning of the expression is disputed, [13] in part because salt had a wide number of uses in the ancient world. Salt was extremely important in the time period when Matthew was written, and ancient communities knew that salt was a requirement of life. [14]

  8. Kosher Salt vs. Table Salt: An Expert Explains the Difference

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    Simply being certified kosher doesn't mean a product is free of iodine, or that what's inside is what's commonly thought of as coarse kosher-style salt. Many different types of salt available in ...

  9. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".