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black_salt
Kitchen ingredient

Black Salt

Also called Witches' Salt
Kitchen ingredient1 tradition
overview

Black salt, or witches' salt, is salt blended with ash from a ritual fire, charcoal, or scraped cast iron. It is the salt of banishing and hard protection. It is not the same as kala namak, the Indian cooking salt.

Uses

  • Banishing
  • Strong protection
  • Breaking contact with someone
  • Boundaries
ritual

Working with it

Mix sea salt with ash from a candle or fire you've worked with, and sprinkle it around the outside of the house or in the footsteps of someone who must leave.

⚠ Safety note for Black Salt
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Planet
♄︎ Saturn
Role
Add-in: stirred into a working
Element
Earth
Works for
ProtectionBanishingBoundariesBindingEndings
Forms
powder
How to use
Sprinkle or scatterSachet or charm bagAltar or offering

⚠ Safety

Receptive
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Where the traditions place it