SOME EARLY SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT SALT.
If you hold fast to a secret superstition about salt to wliiob: you are a bit ashamed, and yet of which you cannot rid yourself, you can be consoled by the thought that you are by no means the only person w,ho has hugged the same belief deep in the heart. For superstitions concerning- salt aro among the earliest known to mankind. There is much evidence in holy writ for the ceremonial use of it, and the old Mosaic law commands that every sacrifice of a meat offering shall be seasoned with it. Long ago salt was cut in the baby's mouth at baptism. Homer calls it divine, and many of the old Teuton races looked on salt springs as holy, and worshipped at them. The origin of this superstition seems to be that since salt cannot corrupt it should be regarded as a symbol of immortality. It was for a long time the custom in Ireland to place a pewter plate on the heart of a person who was mortally sick, as this was thought to be the last effort to save him. If this failed and he seemed to grow worse, all hope was abandoned.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 730, 16 December 1914, Page 7
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202SOME EARLY SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT SALT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 730, 16 December 1914, Page 7
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