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offtorivendell · 2 months
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No but imagine, Elain - who we know goes to the Palace of Bone and Salt (ACOSF, chapter 17) - accidentally bought black salt. The first time.
Or maybe the House of Wind gave it to her when she was visiting and needed salt one time, it doesn't matter.
But after that, she learnt (as @wingedblooms has theorised) how to commune with a certain, princely feline whom I suspect may be hanging around the House of Wind library. So of course she keeps a small pot of it by the kettle, because nobody besides her (and Nuala and Cerridwen, but they know what it is) use the kitchen, so she can throw it in her tea as required for a little "trip."
Enter Cassian:
"Elain, what are you cooking there? It smells delicious." An exaggerated sniff followed his remark.
"Cat food," Elain replied dreamily.
"When did you get a cat?" Elain often appeared to be off in her own world, so Cassian wouldn't put it past her to get a cat and not mention it.
"Oh, I didn't," Elain replied, as she walked out into the sunny terrace garden, herb basket on her hip.
Cassian: 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Or:
Elain had invited Nesta and Cassian over to the townhouse for dinner one night, when Feyre and Rhys were off on official court duty (ie. a family getaway to the cabin, to introduce Nyx to the wonders of snow). Cassian bullied Azriel into tagging along, and because Rhys wouldn't be there, he agreed.
Elain was making a hearty beef stew, with a side of freshly baked bread; the perfect meal for a chilly winter's eve. It had been simmering over the fire long before dusk had threatened to consume the sky, and she had finished seasoning it - even adding a little extra pepper, just for Cassian - moments before Nesta had knocked upon the roof-top door.
It smelt delicious, she couldn't wait to tuck in.
Thirty minutes later, they were sitting down to eat. Cassian shoveled some bread in his mouth as Nesta buttered her roll. Azriel had taken a polite mouthful of stew just as Elain - hungry after a long day in her potting shed and cooking - took a heaped spoon that would have made their mother faint from shock.
The stew was overly salted. Badly. How on earth?
Elain swallowed her mouthful and said, "I'm so sorry, something has happened to the stew. It appears I've put too much salt in it. Hang on and I'll heat up something from the ice box." She started to stand.
Azriel was wearing a funny expression... How mortifying. For him, of all people—her head started to spin with the shame of it.
Averting her eyes, Elain noticed that Cassian was looking incredibly guilty. Her focus narrowed over the roar threatening to consume her, and she was no longer sure it was entirely due to the people pleasing habit that had been forced upon her from childhood.
"What did you do?" Calm, stay calm.
"I, ahh, added some of that finely ground pepper you've got. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist."
"That wasn't pepper." Darkness was creeping into the edges of her vision, her fear all but confirmed, as she warned, "Do not eat the stew, I'll be back in an hour at the most." Azriel had already slumped back into his chair, eyes closed. Oh gods, how would she explain this to him?
Elain closed her eyes and let the darkness take her, opening them to Azriel, dagger at the ready, facing down a fluffy white cat, fur and whiskers abristle, blue eyes wide. If she wasn't so mortified she'd have laughed at the absurd picture they made. Oh well, no time like the present.
"Azriel," she said, standing up tall. "Meet Aidas, the Prince of the Chasm."
This post was brought to you by the ramblings of @cassianfanclub, @psychologynerd and myself. I still haven't finished HOFAS lol - I'm on chapter 75 🐢 - so I could be way off, but this is really just for laughs.
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morethansalad · 5 months
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Vegan Korean Street Toast (Vegan Isaac Toast)
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coven-of-genesis · 11 months
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BLACK SALT USES
MAKE A SALT BATH
KEEP IT UNDER PILLOW FOR PROTECTION
CLEANSE YOUR TOOLS IN IT
USE TO DEFLECT GOSSIP
CARRY A BAG WITH YOU
PUT IN THE CORNERS OF YOUR HOUSE
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espresso-049 · 6 months
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Black salt
My recipe for black salt + a bonus protection spell.
Tools:
Dish for black salt
Cauldron/fire safe dish
Charcoal round
Ingredients:
Parsley
Rosemary
Eggshell powder
Red pepper
Black pepper
Sage
Bay leaf
Salt
Protection oil
Set the charcoal round on or in your fire safe dish. I used my mini cauldron. Use a lighter or match to light it until it sparks 💥. Mix Parsley, rosemary, sage, red pepper, and black pepper together. Dump your herb and other mix onto the charcoal round and let it burn. I put a few drops of protection oil onto the top. I then set a bay leaf on top and light it on fire to burn it.
After all of the herbs are ash I usually have some of the charcoal disk left. From there I crush up the charcoal and mix it with the ash from the protection spell.
I mix pink salt in and eggshell powder then I pour it into my salt dish.
‼️ Ventilate your space, open windows when burning shit ‼️
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pnwitch-of-west17 · 6 months
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mrsmothmom · 11 months
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ok but i need you to know that black salt smells like farts
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spiritofhyena · 11 months
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Black salt / witches' salt
WARNING: do NOT mix it up with the edible black salt for kitchen use. They are both called “black salt” but one is salt with activated charcoal or salt from a volcanic area that can be used in cooking, the other is a mix of salt, ashes, and other non-edible things used as a protection or banishing spell. I personally use it as a halfway between warding/protection and banishing as I add things usually associated with banishing.
I tried to search up the origin of the “witches’ salt” but I didn’t find anything solid (but also I made only a couple of quick searches on google because I was crunching time as I did this either before/after work or sometimes during slow moments at work) so, my best guess would be that its origin might be derived from the use of salt in many folkloric traditions as a protection or to purify, mixed a bit with a concept similar to the "witches' bottle", but I digress.
Disclaimer again: I wrote most of this during work time and edited it afterwards so I can't guarantee the form and grammar used.
I first made black salt after a couple of quick searches for protection and banishing spells that could help me in my practice, as I first started I was a bit of an idiot (to quote Set) and didn't keep anything to protect myself around when doing divination and other things.
With time I noticed that it's a good all-around protection and also, with a couple of tweaks, could be perfect to also banish in a "bounce back to sender" way.
There are different recipes on the Internet and among witchy communities but they mostly differ for some ingredients added (or not added) and I believe all would work… but surely, IMHO, if you tailor them to your needs it would be more effective.
This is what I made for myself, and I'll also include the "return to sender" version.
Tools you’ll need:
a jar with a lid to store it
mortar & pestle (not mandatory: I don’t have one so I use a tiny ceramic casserole and one of those wooden pestles for cocktails bc that’s what I had at home… use whatever could do the job)
a candle in the colour you associate with protection and warding
Ingredients:
salt (duh-)
ashes (either incense ashes, firepit ashes/charcoal, soot or you could also use activated charcoal)
eggshells powder
black pepper
rosemary
bay leaves
sage (kitchen kind is perfect!)
whatever herb you associate with protection
Process:
Honestly, you should do this however it feels right for you. You could cast a circle, call the elements or whatever. I don’t do that because it’s not part of my practice. You don’t even need to cleanse or anything if you don’t feel it’s necessary: it’ll work anyway.
Light the candle (ofc if you think it’s needed) and put the ingredients in the mortar, a little bit at a time, to grind them a bit and most importantly mix all of them. Focus on your intention, if you feel you need to recite something to enchant it then do it. Mix all the ingredients, I usually start with salt, add eggshell powder, all the other ingredients and then another bit of salt at the end to “close” everything.
If you want to give it a little “boost” you could write on a bay leaf “I am protected” or the like and then burn it (do it in a fireproof container! bay leaves are nasty burners and like to pop a lot!) to “activate” it and mix it to the rest of the ingredients.
When everything is all mixed, then you can pour it into the jar and close it. It’s up to you if you want to seal the lid with some wax or not. I do not do it because if I decide to redo it I can open it and clean the jar more easily before preparing the new black salt.
Again, it’s up to you if you want to charge it under the moonlight/sunlight or in some other way: do what you feel that's right to do.
And that’s it! Congrats you made black salt that will protect your space!
For the return-to-sender version:
add more pepper
slap also some paprika or better some chilli pepper powder
also put there some garlic
you can add other ingredients you associate with banishing
add a bay leaf (or also a piece of paper) with the intention written on it like “the harm/malicious intent is returned to who cast it” or whatever you feel right
complete!
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foragewitch · 11 months
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Magickal properties of black salt: banishes negative energy, hex breaking, protection, cleansing
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fallensapphires · 2 months
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Elements of Nature
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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caffeine-and-spells · 9 months
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My Recipe for Black Salt
Salt
Burned incense ashes / cauldron ashes from positive workings — I personally use ashes from old matches and from burning loose juniper and lavender in my cauldron
Dirt from a fern plant
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halleythecometcorgi · 10 months
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I found a new dog friendly cafe across the road from a lake where we sometimes walk Halley!
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vanilla-cigarillos · 11 months
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Black Salt in Witchcraft
Black salt is like eggshell powder, it’s one of those things that you’ll hear a LOT of whenever you’re digging into witchcraft practices. In this post I’ll be detailing what it is, what it’s used for, and how you can make it yourself!
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What IS Black Salt (In Witchcraft)?
Not to be confused with anything used in culinary arts, black salt is salt that has been naturally dyed with (usually) charcoal/ashes. It’s used primary in protection work, from the belief that it helps in warding against negative energy and entities.
How to Make Black Salt -
Ingredients:
Coarse sea or kosher salt
Your choice of the following:
Fire pit ashes
Black food coloring
Black pepper
Activated charcoal powder
Instructions:
Combine salt and black additive of your choice
If you want to charge it, leave it in the sun or moonlight for ~12 hours
How to Use Black Salt -
If you believe in using gemstones: put your protection gemstones of choice in a bag of black salt to cleanse and recharge them 
Sprinkle it around the perimeter of your house to guard the home
Use it as an ingredient in your spell work recipes to improve the protective qualities of your work
Mark the perimeter of your outdoor sacred space (will stain indoors) when you cast a circle to protect you during ritual work
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morethansalad · 1 year
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theantarwitch · 2 years
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Book of Shadows: Black Salt
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Witches black salt is a mixture of regular salt and one of two things: ashes or iron scrapings. Put all ingredients into your mortar, mix and grind your salt and ash or scrapings together in a clockwise fashion, while visualizing your intentions, bottle it and label it. The color black represents mystery, but in witchcraft is used for banishing, binding, protection, and warding. If you use the leftover ash from your rituals, this ash contains the purifying power of whatever herb it came from (rosemary, lavenders are some examples). Ashes are also used in healing rituals, when a forest burns to the ground, the ashes heal the earth and encourage new growth. 
Uses: Spread black salt over your thresholds and windowsills to protect the home from negative energy and dark magic. Encircle a candle to contain the energy within OR to amplify your intentions: best for banishings, bindings, reversals. Add to banishing, binding, and warding spell bottles, bags, jars, and sachets. Draw a circle around you on the ground/floor during ritual for protection. Keep bowls of witches black salt around the home to ward off negativity and spirit. Use as a floor sweep (sprinkle all over the floor then sweep/vacuum it up) to remove stubborn negative energy or spirits. To protect your property from negative spirits, people with ill-intent, unwanted visitors, and negative energy: sprinkle black salt around the perimeter of your property. To both banish any residual icky energy that a person may have left in your home, and prevent them from returning: sprinkle black salt on the front step and sweep it away. If you’re feeling more traditional (and brave!) you can throw black salt at the back of someone that is leaving your home also. To prevent nightmares: use in a sachet and keep beneath your pillow. To repel negativity, unwanted visitors, and rumours/gossip: sprinkle generously across windowsills and doorways. To cleanse your home and keep nasties from entering: add black salt to a floor wash and go ham on your floor. Focus especially on high traffic areas. To undo a curse, hex, or other form of malignant magic that has been cast upon you: use in an uncrossing oil or powder. To alleviate any negative thoughts and feelings that you are carrying: add a pinch of black salt to your bath, or to an oil with a similar purpose that you anoint yourself with.
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sseitansatan · 5 months
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littlemissmadame · 6 months
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