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Black Salt
Firstly, this is not to be confused with the grey and sort of pinkish mineral salt used in Indian cooking that is, for reasons unknown to us, referred to as Black Salt.
A word of caution - Black Salt can be unstable and therefore unpredictable. It’s a double-edged sword, which can either ward off evil or encourage it.
Once you’ve used it, dispose of it as described later.
Generally, there are two purposes for making Black Salt. The most common is to be used in protection magic rituals.
The other use is for it to be used as an ingredient in malevolent magic such as hexing, binding, and cursing.
Whilst it’s very much your choice and what you are comfortable with, we, like many of you, believe that natural magic should be for the purpose of good, not
harm.
Malevolent magic inevitably affects not only the person it is intended for but also those around them. Therefore, we will not be expanding further on that aspect of its uses.
Black Salt is used in many traditional rituals for its powers of protection.
This applies to both the physical and metaphysical.
Your intentions are the absolute key factor.
Our ancestors would most definitely have had good reason to want and or most likely need to protect their property from intruders. Therefore, their main purpose of making Black Salt and sprinkling it around the perimeter of their property was to protect them from physical threat.
Today, motion sensor lights tend to be sufficient in
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