Black Salt: A Must For Every Witch

According to Folk Magic and Hoodoo traditions, Black Salt is a primary protective element, it is in essence one kick up from regular salt used that is used as a general protection border especially in ritual work.

Black Salt has a multitude of uses, including absorbing negativity when you are doing an uncrossing ritual. Using black salt to absorb and contain negativity is not black magik. Some folks unfamiliar with magickal practices will say that working with this substance is evil. That is a very serious misconception, even doing something to remove a person who is harmful to you and your family is not black magik.

It does have other names and maybe offered under the names of Witch’s Salt, Drive Away Salt, Sal Negro and Indio Salt, but it is still Black Salt but created with different intents and purposes, you yourself can create your own black salt and depending upon what you put into it create it for specific purposes, so that it’s “Black Salt-Drive Away”—-“Black Salt-Banishing” etc. etc.

Black Salt is potent, but it takes some work and some extra materials to make it.

Black Salt for protection or hexing

My use for Black Salt:  for protection as well as for hexing

The purpose for black salt use in protection is to drive away evil or to protect your property or belongings.

Once it is blended up, if you make a sufficient quantity you can sprinkle it around your property to keep your home safe from intruders or troublemakers or sprinkle it across the front and back door thresholds of your apartment, and across the bottom of any thresholds of patio doors, and across the bottom of window sills.

If you live in an apartment, move the furniture away from the walls and sprinkle it along the bottoms of the walls and across the thresholds of the front and back doors this way if you have to replenish it, then it will only be on the thresholds.

But if you want to use it to make someone go away, someone who has been bothering you then you sprinkle it across or in the footprints of someone who is bothering you, to make them go away.

How to use Black Salt in Black Magic

– This maybe repeating myself but its always good to remember—To rid evil and negativity from one’s home, sprinkle black salt on the floor and then sweep it up and out the front door and off the porch toward the street. This would be an example of a white magic spell.

-To prevent a troublesome person from returning to one’s home, as soon as they leave throw black salt on the porch or sidewalk and then quickly and vigorously sweep it out to the street while cursing or cussing them. If you are bold you can throw black salt at their back as they walk away. This would be an example of a black magic spell; however such could easily be adapted into a white magic spell by addressing the salt and asking that it remove this person from yours and your loved ones lives without harming him/her and then that is not cursing the person, just getting them to leave the area permanently.

-To gain revenge on an enemy, sprinkle black salt into a doll baby or voodoo doll containing a personal concern from the enemy, such as a photograph, snip of hair or fingernail clippings. Black salt can be added to black magic mojos or bottle spells which are to be buried on the property of the victim or else hidden inside their home or car.  But you have to make sure that no innocent person is harmed in any way.

Black salt can also be used to create a potion which is used to curse an enemy. To make this potion, dissolve black salt (the kind that has been dyed with black food coloring) in water. One can use a plastic water bottle or any container with a lid for this. Add to it graveyard dirt, black pepper, and one whole bottle of a black magic oil. Close the lid and shake well while cursing one’s enemy. The potion is deployed by dumping it on the enemy’s car or porch.

You can also dress your crossing and revenge candles with Black Salt, just as you can dress black candles with it to remove hexes and negativity or jinxes.

Other uses for Black Salt

– It is used to remove negative spells that have been cast on a person.

-Create a circle around the perimeter of your house for protection

-Sprinkle in your place to banish evil and to cleanse from negativity

-Open your door and sprinkle some salt outside of your door naming the person you don’t wish to visit your property again and the reasons behind this

-Sprinkle some, salt with caution, behind the person you wish to remove from your place and then some outside of your door

-keep in a dish under your or in a little bag under your pillow to negate bad dreams & ward unwanted watchers or spirits.

-cast a line across your doorways & windows to keep out evil, avoid unwanted company, and reflect slander or jealousy back to the source.

-add a bit to floor washes to cleanse your home, front walkway, & ritual area of negativity.

-add to bath water when you are feeling especially depressed, angry, & negative.

-keep a bit on your person against your skin in a small flannel packet or bag, in your desk, or taped under your chair at work or school to deflect gossips, bullies, rude coworkers, and bad bosses attention. Keep in a bowl, a tiny cloth pouch, or sprinkle a bit.

– You can add it to Water of Mars also known as War Water for improved protective and jinx removing effects as well as to Hot Foot Powder, Graveyard Dirt, & Rattlesnake Salt for extra potency.

-Sprinkle in an enemy’s or threatening neighbor’s yard, office, or footsteps so that they will want to leave or move, or at least create a barrier that keeps away evil forces and bad neighbors.

This aspect I cannot stress enough, if someone you distrust, dislike or just want out of your home, walks on Black Salt, they will become dissatisfied with the place where the black salt was placed and will want to move away from that area. So sprinkle Black Salt around the outside of your home, across your doorstep, sprinkle around your work area, or any other place where you want to keep enemies away

Remember Black Salt is mostly used for dispelling negative energy and to create boundaries against enemies (it makes them feel like leaving) or that will render them powerless while in your area.

However, it can be sprinkled in an enemy’s territory as a hexing agent to curtail their power and to control them.

It is especially useful against irritating co-workers sometimes to the point where they will leave their job to find work elsewhere.

You can use Black Salt in conjunction with White Salt, Sage, or Holy Water to both absorb evil & then purify yourself and space. Burn a black candle to take in negativity then a white candle to bring in pure white light.

Black Salt – Version #1

The formula for making black salt is pretty basic:

• 2 parts sea salt

• 1 part scrapings from a cast iron skillet or pot

• 1 part fine ash from your fire pit especially if it’s from a ritual fire
• 1 part finely ground black pepper

If you are not sure about the balance of dry mixtures go with this measure for every three spoons of salt add one spoon of the material of your choice.

Depending on the density of your coloring ingredient, you may need to adjust the portions a little, but that’s the basic method of making it. If you have a well-seasoned cast iron pot or cauldron, you should be able to get a good amount of black scrapings out of the bottom of it, but if it seems too oily, use the ash or pepper instead.

If you have a cast iron cauldron that you use for magickal workings that would be good, but you also have to consider, what was the ritual that you did before you start making the Black Salt. You don’t want to make Black Salt for protection when you’ve used your caldron for a hexing spell and vise-versa.

What some people do is burn specific herbs in their cauldron with the intention of protection or hexing. I suggest giving thought to what you have burnt in that cauldron, utilizing scrapings from protective work to make protective salts, and scrapings following cursing or hexing magic to make cursing or hexing salts.

Some people also recommended using black chalk dust, black powdered food dye, or lamplight smudge, the blackening that collects on the chimney of an oil lamp.

Now some people will add a drop or two of oil that has been made for a specific purpose to ramp up the energy of the Black Salt.

The beauty about making Black Salt is that aside from the basic recipe you can add something to it for a specific purpose and to make it specific to your aura, your energy, your intent.

Here is some examples:

• Graveyard dirt can be mixed into black salt. Dirt purchased from the grave of an ancestral ally will result in protective salts, whereas that chosen from the grave of a murderer will contain that spirit’s violent intention.
• To make uncrossing Black Salt burn herbs such as hyssop, lemongrass, pennyroyal, and such in order to make your ash to add to the salt.
• Pot ash made from tumbleweeds, licorice root, peppers, and such can be added to Black Salt in order to make destructive Black Salts.
• Red Pepper mixed with Black Salt, once mixed together toss it where an enemy walks so that he or she will leave.

Black Salt – Version #2

What you’ll need:

• Sea Salt
• Charcoal Disk (or charcoal powder)
• Black Candle
• Rosemary
• Garlic Powder
• Chili Powder
• Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
• Paprika
• Black Pepper
• Black Candle
• Bowl
• Mortar & Pestle
• Black stones/crystals (optional)
• Any additional protective items you may have. (Here I gathered dried red peppers, dried chili peppers, lemon, sage, and ashed from a bonfire.)
• Frankincense and/or Dragon’s Blood incense.

Instructions: 

• First, cleanse your space using whatever best works for you.
• After cleansing, start your frankincense and/or dragon’s blood incense, this will be going for the duration of the spell.
• Light your black candle.
• In a bowl, mix the salt with the herbs first.
• Use a mortar and pestle to crush the charcoal disk separately. Or use charcoal powder
• Mixing counterclockwise, mix the very finely crushed charcoal into the salt. Mix. Use as many charcoal disks needed to get to the level of darkness you want.
• When you’re done, transfer the black salt into a jar. Let it continue to build and charge this way, until you feel it is ready. If you’re not sure, it can also be until the candle or incense goes out.

Done! Sprinkle this around the parameter of your wards, such as along doorways and windows. It can also be used during unhexing/curse breaking spells, general protection spells, banishing, and binding.

Black Salt – Version #3

If you have to buy Black salt, at least try and add something of your own to the salt to personalise it. For example, if you have a spirit that you work with for protection, or even wish to ask Father Lucifer for protection, you can:

• draw the sigil of Lucifer on paper
• consecrate with incense or a drop of your blood over the sigil.
• Ask Lucifer to enchant the salt for the purposes of (protection etc)
• Burn the sigil and let the ashes drop into the salt

You now have Black Demonic Protection Salt!

To get rid of used black salt

1) Ground it in the earth by burying it in a hidden distant place from your living and working space. Bury it at a crossroads of paths or streets. Some bury it in cemeteries or even if possible an enemy’s yard.

2) Cast in the wind in a distant place blowing it away from your home OR work place. Some will blow this from their hand into the four directions or at a crossroads. But always make sure of the natural wind direction

3) Thrown into a fire along with paper where you have written all your worries and whatever else you want to be rid of. It is important to not use these ashes to make any other ritual items so once the ashes are cold, take them and bury them at a distance from your home or ritual area.

4) When some rituals say to “Cast into living water” it meaning running active water like a creek or river. This will disperse the energies and cleanse them. Rivers, creeks, lakes, and oceans are all good. Even a ditch with moving water or down a storm drain,  it is only ash and salt, but during a drought it might be best to use your toilet, especially if it has a good flush and may be very effective in ‘flushing’ junk out of your life!

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