It is believed that Roman soldiers were paid in salt — "salarium" which is where our word salary comes from. Around the world towns and cities were founded and named for local salt mines — Salzburg, Austria for one.
Salt has been involved in human conflict. In early American history, the British denied colonists access to salt and many other governments raised revenue by imposing taxes on salt.
In the 20 th century, Mohandas Gandhi used the issue of British salt taxation as a means of nonviolent civil disobedience by leading fellow Indians on a mile march to the sea in efforts to break from British rule by defying Britain's Salt Act of Under British rule, Indians were prohibited from collecting or selling salt, a dietary staple.
They were forced to buy this essential mineral from the Brits who had a monopoly on salt production and collected a heavy salt tax, impacting all Indians but more so, the nation's poorest citizens. As a history buff, I found it interesting to watch several YouTube videos of actual footage of this march. Syracuse, NY has the nickname of "Salt City" due to production of salt from its briny salt springs where the fluid was eliminated either by boiling or solar evaporation.
It was a major salt producer for the US through much of the 19 th century. The Erie Canal, constructed in was known as the "ditch that salt built" because salt was the principal cargo of canal barges and salt taxes paid about half of the construction costs.
Modern photography had its beginnings with salt prints — the primary paper-based photographic process in the years to when it was replaced by daguerreotypes. Another unusual use of salt is as a glaze for stoneware pottery. It produces a slightly orange-peel texture and is translucent and depending on other minerals present in the salt can provide a clear, brown, blue or purple finish.
A ghost can also be encircled by salt to prevent it from escaping, much like a devil's trap. As revealed in Scoobynatural , the protection appears as certain force field barrier that inhibit the spirit movement as long the spirit is not powerful enough to disturb the salt line.
If a line of salt is broken by any means, a spirit can pass through it. Salt lines can only be broken by creatures that it does not affect. Salt may also be used to purify human corpses. As it causes intense pain in demons, it may also be used to torture them. It can also be used to force a spirit out of a human's body after possession.
Since people could not see microscopic organisms before the invention of microscopes rot, decay, and putrefaction were associated with evil spirits.
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Salt has had a strong significance in a lot of different religions for millennia. Believing the spirit haunting Sonny 's is that of Howard Wasserlauf, Sam and Dean proceed to salt and burn his remains. Dean shoots a ghost with rock salt as it begins to manifest in the Bunker , not realizing it is Kevin.
Afterwards Sam can be seen packing rock salt rounds at the kitchen table. Sam and Dean salt and burn the truck Billy Bass died in, believing it to be possessed by his deceased brother. To protect Delilah Marian from the vengeful spirit of Andrew Silver , Sam and Dean place her in a ring of salt and place salt lines at all the entrances of her room. When they realize Andrew is traveling through the computer wires, Dean and Delilah head to the basement of her sorority where there is less of a signal; once there Dean places salt lines at the door and windows.
Dean brings a shotgun with rock salt while hunting Isabella with Sister Mathias. After learning that the attacker of a local high school coach is possessed by a ghost, Dean informs Sheriff Donna Hanscum of the use of salt and iron against ghosts. After Donna shows him a container of salt she uses to help her diet, Dean shoots the possessed girl with rock salt, breaking the spirit's hold over her.
He later creates a circle of salt to protect Rita and her son Max from the spirit. Sam and Dean use salt to trap the vengeful spirits at Waverly Hills Sanitorium. Sam and Dean salt and burn the remains of five children they believe to be mylings. Later, Sam salts and burns the corpse of Hugo Moriarty after finding it in a wall.
A young Asa Fox is shown making salt rounds and using them to dissipate a vengeful spirit. Dean uses rock salt to dissipate Fiona Duncan and stop her from killing another teacher.
Dean salts and burns the body of Erica Bailey, whom they believe to be a vengeful spirit. As Dean prepares to burn the plague doctor masks that are tethering Dr.
Avery Meadows , Sam lays down a salt barrier at the office door. As Dr. Meadows tries to walk through the door, he is stopped midway by the salt but quickly causes a force of wind to blow it away. He is too late, however, as Dean sets fire to his masks. Later when Dean has Sam temporarily kill him so he can find the location of the various ghost's dead bodies, Sam puts down salt around Dean's body to protect him from any ghosts. In an attempt to trap the Phantom , Sam, Dean, Castiel , and the Scooby Gang lay salt lines at all but one of the exits to trap the Phantom.
However, Fred 's trap does not end up working and they switch to Plan B, where the Phantom is tricked into standing on a trap door by Scooby-Doo and dropped into a salt circle, where Sam, Dean, and Castiel learn the Phantom is actually the ghost of a young boy who has been forced to hurt other people by Jay. Nick uses a ring of salt in his ritual to resurrect Lucifer from the Empty. While trying to hit one of the ghosts, Sam accidentally shoots Castiel, to the angel's annoyance.
When explaining the spell he is going to cast to contain the ghosts, Belphegor describes it as creating a barrier that is like a one-mile wide salt circle that no ghost can enter or exit. Salt is one of the two ingredients for the spell, along with a human heart.
Dean gets the demon a bag of rock salt from a hardware store which he pours out into a pile, upon which Belphegor places the human heart. Dean uses rock salt shells to ward off Hell Ghosts trying to break through the barrier. However, he uses up all of his ammunition before Francis Tumblety is revealed to be possessing Arthur Ketch , forcing Dean to shoot Ketch with iron bullets to expel the ghost.
As part of securing the crypt where Rowena plans to perform a spell from the Book of the Damned to strengthen the barrier, the Winchesters lay down a salt line in front of the door.
Later, when Dean prepares for his role in the Sanetur Acre Vulnus spell, Rowena warns him that he will have to be exposed for it to work and thus he can't use a salt circle.
Dean arms himself with an iron crowbar instead, though he never has to use it. The practice of putting down an enclosing ring of salt or salting the doors and windows of a room for protection lies in the lore that a vampire or demon cannot cross the line without counting each grain.
In vampire lore , it is not required to be salt - it can be any form of grain rice, millet, etc. According to Christian demonology, demons, the Devil in particular, hate salt. Salt is used as a talisman against evil e. The popularity of salt could be related to the fact that salt is a natural preservative and antiseptic that has long been used as a purifying agent in folk magic.
In some Christian rituals of baptism, especially in Catholicism, salt is put on the lips of the child during the ceremony of the baptism as a symbol of wisdom.
The dislike for bread can be explained because it represents the body of Jesus for Christians and is transubstantiated into His flesh during the Mass.
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