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sea_salt
Kitchen ingredient

Sea Salt

Kitchen ingredient
overview

Salt preserves, purifies, and has been a sacred substance in nearly every culture: Shinto sumo wrestlers throw it, Jews salt the Sabbath bread, and witches cast circles with it. In Wicca salt is the element of Earth on the altar.

Uses

  • Protection
  • Purification
  • Casting a circle
  • Boundaries
ritual

Working with it

Sprinkle a line of salt across doorways and windowsills, or add a handful to a bath to cleanse. Add a pinch to any potion meant to protect.

ingredient_profile
Role
Add-in: stirred into a working
Element
Earth
Works for
ProtectionPurificationBanishingBoundariesHome
Forms
crystalspowder
How to use
Sprinkle or scatterRitual bathPotion (charged, then kept or poured out)Sachet or charm bagAltar or offering
Receptive