On Maundy Thursday it is customary to cook Thursday salt. It is believed to have healing powers and protective properties. Where to get Thursday salt, how to prepare and use it?
About the properties of Thursday salt
Salt has always been considered a special product among the Slavs. In Orthodoxy, Thursday salt has become an integral part of preparation for Easter. Even before Christian times, miraculous properties were attributed to ordinary salt; it was not for nothing that long-awaited guests were greeted with bread and salt. This product has always been on the table in families. And placing a grain of salt on the tongue was a custom at baptism among the first Christians.
Thursday salt has even stronger energy than ordinary salt. Whenever our ancestors did not use it, they washed the sick, gave it to livestock for illness, added it to the ground for a rich harvest, sprinkled it in the house to protect against damage, the evil eye and misfortunes.
How to prepare Thursday salt
Thursday salt is prepared once a year - on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week before Easter. There are several ways to prepare Thursday salt.
- Salt is pierced in a frying pan until it darkens. During heating, it must be stirred constantly. By the way, there is a belief that if, during preparation, Thursday salt begins to crack and “shoot” strongly, then the person is suffering from damage, the evil eye or negativity.
- The salt is also calcined together with the flour until the entire mixture turns black.
- Since ancient times, salt has been prepared in an oven. To do this, the guest of coarse salt was tied into a rag and placed in a simmering oven. The rag decayed, and the resulting lump of salt was crushed.
It was customary to prepare Thursday salt with good, bright thoughts or prayer. After cooking, it was placed on the festive table (dishes and eggs were salted with it) or wrapped in a rag and stored in a secluded place until it was needed to be used.
Application of Thursday salt
There are no special rituals or ceremonies with Thursday salt. You can carry it with you in a canvas bag for personal protection, sprinkle it in the house to protect against evil and negativity, eat and drink it with water to cure diseases. Nevertheless, there are some rituals that allow you to cope with this or that misfortune with the help of this healing product.
- If trouble comes to the house, then black Thursday salt should be poured into every corner.
- To reconcile with your spouse, you need to place a bag of salt under your pillow.
- To return to home loved one you need to throw salt into the fire, calling him to return.
- To keep children healthy, add a little salt to the water when bathing.
- To ensure that the house always has everything in abundance, Thursday salt should be poured into a wooden salt shaker and placed on the dining table.
- If an ill-wisher or an evil person comes to the house, he needs to add salt to his food.
- To have peace and tranquility in the house, you need to sprinkle a little Thursday salt under each bed.
Don’t forget that Thursday salt is prepared once a year, which means you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to make a strong amulet for yourself and your loved ones. We wish you good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and
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Salt is considered a symbol of hospitality and prosperity, but it is also used to effectively protect against evil. ...
I want to tell you how our family is saved from various diseases salt prepared on the last Thursday before Easter. This salt has long been used by people for treatment, and they also wear it on the chest as a talisman, protecting themselves from the evil eye.
They stock up on Thursday salt for the whole year. To do this, ordinary salt is mixed on a clean canvas cloth with various herbs and other additives, then early in the morning before sunrise on Thursday before Easter, after reading the “Our Father” before that, the salt and herbs are baked in the oven (in no case in the microwave! ) until it turns black. Black salt, unlike ordinary white salt, does not cause thirst and does not retain water in the body. At the same time, it contains a lot of microelements such as potassium, magnesium, copper, selenium and calcium, and the carbon contained in Thursday salt in the form of finely porous coal absorbs and removes toxins and poisons from the body.
To prepare salt with spicy herbs I mix 5 kg of homemade rye bread or bran softened in apple cider vinegar, 1 kg of coarse rock salt, 3-4 handfuls of mint, dill and oregano taken equally in dry form, place everything in an oven heated to 2500C and bake until blackened . After the mixture has cooled, I grind it and sift through a sieve. I prepare Thursday salt and oatmeal. You need to soak 3 kg of flakes for 30 minutes in cold water, then drain the water, mix the flakes with 1 kg of salt and bake in the oven until smoke appears. After this, cool, chop and sift through a sieve.
Magic Thursday salt: preparation and use
Previously, not all food was salted, but only special ones. The one that was presented to the ancient gods and used in ritual meals. And this salt was not used just like that, it was prepared in a certain way in order to open it magical properties. This is what the Book of the Hidden Tree of Life says about such salt:
“You need to take salt, the whitest one, so that it glows like silver in the light, crush it in a wooden mortar. Do this when the moon is old. Keep it in the house all day, close to the hearth. And then wait for the Clean Day and take it to the priest. After the ceremony, bring Salt back to your home. That salt will become the Salt of All Salts; it is protection from any evil.
If there is a sick person in the house, give him that Salt and water to drink.
If there is trouble in the house, pour it into every corner.
If there is a quarrel between spouses, put a bag of Salt under the pillow.
If someone leaves and does not return, throw a handful of Salt into the fire.
So that children grow up healthy, kind, beautiful and intelligent - throw a small pinch into the bathing water.
To ensure prosperity in the house, pour it into a wooden salt shaker and place it in the middle of the table. If an ill-wisher comes to the house, serve him food flavored with that Salt.
And if there is an enemy, then after he leaves, sprinkle all traces of him with Salt.
To ensure harmony in the house, throw a pinch under each bed, right under the headboard.”
How to prepare Thursday Salt today
First of all, you need to remember that Thursday Salt can be prepared only on one day a year - on Holy or Maundy Thursday, that is, the Thursday falling during Holy Week, which precedes the Easter holiday.
To make it you will need a pack of the most ordinary stone table salt the coarsest grind and 12 tablespoons of rye flour. You will also need a cast iron frying pan with a thick bottom, a wooden spoon and a clean linen bag.
Salt and flour should be poured into a frying pan and put it on fire. When you do this, be sure to say out loud (three times):
Clean Thursday, save and have mercy from worms and every reptile for a long time.
Then you must bake the salt together with the flour until the flour is completely blackened. In this case, you need to mix the flour with salt with a wooden spoon in a clockwise direction.
The prepared salt should be left on the stove until midnight, and then just poured into a bag, which should be tied tightly.
Why is the frying pan cast iron? Because energy will not flow through cast iron, it has this property. So if you don’t have a cast-iron frying pan at home, take one made of any metal, but with a thick bottom and high walls. Just don't take aluminum cookware. Aluminum is a good conductor, which means everything flows through it easily and quickly. And the power of Thursday Salt in such a vessel will not linger, it will flow away.
Instead of a linen bag, you can take any kitchen towel, only new, unused. And a wooden spoon... or break off a twig from a young Christmas tree, peel off the bark and stir it with this fragrant stick.
How to make Thursday Salt enter the Force
The most important thing for any Object of Power is to make sure that it, this Thing, reveals that same Power in itself:
Not every seed becomes a tree, and not every stream can lead to an ocean. It is necessary for the force living in them to come out, to reveal itself completely, and then they will become what they should be. This is what happens with things, there is great power in them, but that’s only half the story. We need to help this force unfold, to express itself fully. And then a seemingly ordinary thing will turn into a powerful one. And each of the Things requires a special approach.
In order for the Thursday Salt to truly “settle” in the house, its power must be revealed, and then, even if it is simply stored in the house, it will already “work” in a certain way, helping the people living in that house. But Thursday Salt, like other Objects of Power, should be handled with respect.
After the Salt is made, literally immediately the next morning, you need to get up at dawn, while the sun is still rising, go to the front door with a bag of Thursday Salt (reminiscent of Thursday Salt (I remind you that the bag itself should be linen, and it is best to bandage it tightly), stand over the threshold, and then, stepping over it with your right foot, begin a complete walk around the home. This must be done counterclockwise. But before you step over the threshold, you need to say the following words, you can whisper:
All Salt Salt, from Holy Thursday,
We all care
How did you come to the house?
So the bitter misfortune is gone.
Protect and help
Save the house from harm.
And when the whole apartment has been walked around, I repeat once again: you need to go into every room that has a door - again stand in front of the threshold, facing the exit, and say:
All evil go away
And happiness will come.
I'm locking my word
I seal it with salt.
It is necessary to store Thursday Salt in the kitchen, close to the stove. But in such a way that no prying eye could see it, and under no circumstances tell strangers anything about it. This kind of salt is a kind of panacea; it helps with many illnesses, both physical and mental, it “heals” and protects the family, and brings happiness and prosperity to the house.
Cleaning the house with hot salt
Today there are many ways and methods to protect your home from negative influences and influences. Some of them are simple and easy to implement. This is the method we bring to your attention...
Cleaning the house with hot salt
On the waning moon, do magical cleaning:
. Open the windows and doors, let the air circulate freely throughout the house, burning out and carrying away all the accumulated negative influences.
. Wash the floors and windows (at least wipe the window sills with a wet rag). Change the water more often.
. Immediately remove the collected dirt from the house: pour dirty water into the toilet, throw unnecessary rubbish and garbage into the trash, shake out dust collected with a vacuum cleaner immediately. Make sure that the garbage cans are empty and clean.
. When cleaning, be sure to imagine that you are not just fighting with dirt, but that you are sweeping out and cleaning out all the troubles, illnesses and adversities. Concentrate on the process itself, on each of its elements. Every action you take should be meaningful as if it were magical. Try not to get annoyed, don't get angry, and don't show displeasure - negative emotions shouldn't bother you.
Well, now that the house is sparkling clean, you can take a little break and proceed to the second part of cleansing and protecting the house - cleaning with hot salt
The most favorable time for the ceremony is between 11 and 12 noon. You will need a metal frying pan (Teflon, enamel will be ruined).
Place it on high heat and pour a thin layer of salt on the bottom. Heat the salt for at least an hour. If there is energetic dirt, the salt will show through dark spots. As the house cleanses, they will become lighter. You can walk clockwise through all rooms of the house with a hot frying pan.
If there is any negative impact on the house or owners, during calcination the salt will crack and “shoot out”.
When the salt has cooled, you can throw it down the toilet.
RECIPE FOR CLEANSING WITH SALT, WATER, INCENSE
Basically, any words can be used to purify anything, from long church-sounding Latin invocations of force to simple alliteration. Witches generally prefer the latter. Here are two spells that can be used for cleansing, which are partly based on the principle of alliteration:
Taking a small handful of fresh salt and throwing it into a cup of fresh water, exhale these words onto the surface of the water, mentally conjuring up a figurative picture - (and this is the most important point) with all the faith, will, imagination that you can summon. A slightly bluish light begins to hover over the water as you do this. “Water and earth where you are thrown. There are no more spells or bad intentions. This is my word, so be it!”
Now it is not simple salt and water, but charged salt and cleansing water that you will use to prepare your working tools. Likewise, while throwing a few grains of good quality church incense into the glowing charcoals in the ashtray, chant with your hand outstretched above:
Creation of fire, I charge you
Not a single phantom remains.
All my will is directed towards you.
This is my word, so be it!
The salt of life and the lamp of life
A waning moon is preferable. Do the same for yourself.
Salt:
Buy a pack of coarse sea salt.
Open the pack, pour a handful of salt into a frying pan and heat it up.
At this time, read “Our Father” once, then say 1 time:
Holy salt, blessed salt, take all the nasty things from the servant of God (name) and give them along the flowing water to the island of Buyan, to the sea - Okiyan.
After this, pour the hot salt onto a saucer and place it in front of the photograph of the person from whom the damage (or your own) is being removed. Every day, heat this salt in a frying pan and leave it on the same saucer before taking a photo. Do it for seven days.
On the eighth day, pour the salt into the river (in the toilet).
Say some words, like, go away, forever...
These slander are also well known.
Lamp:
Take a clean lamp, pour oil, light the wick, read the “Our Father” once, then say three times:
Like a flame burns evenly, so that the life of God’s servant (name) is bright and pure.
Maintain the fire for seven days.
When removing the evil eye, it is enough to use one salt.
You can make salt and a lamp at the same time.
Salt protects against evil.
Salt restores the strength we have lost and heals holes in the astral body. A evil people and especially those who have taken on the soul the sin of corruption or witchcraft cannot tolerate salt. It was not for nothing that our ancestors took salt with them on the road as a talisman. In “unclean” places it was thrown over the shoulder so that evil forces could not harm a person.
Salt was also used in magical rituals - white crystals restored happiness and removed evil witchcraft from a person.
How to protect yourself with salt?
RECIPE 1.
Our great-grandfathers noticed that it is easiest to put the evil eye on a person at the moment when he is engrossed in a conversation and is not paying attention to what is happening. This is where the envious person casts an evil eye, distracting you with flattering conversation.
To avoid such a misfortune, it was customary in Rus' to place salt on the table in an open salt shaker. After all, it “quenches” negative energy and wards off the evil eye. And evil wishes return through the underworld to the one who sent them.
RECIPE 2.
To determine whether there is an unclean spirit in the house, and immediately drive it out of the door, between 11 and 12 o’clock in the afternoon, take an ordinary clean metal frying pan (Teflon or enamel will spoil), put it on high heat and pour a thin layer of salt. The salt needs to be heated for one to three hours. If there is energetic dirt in the house, dark spots appear on the salt. As the evil spirits leave the house in panic, they lighten up. In addition, we advise you to walk through all the rooms with a hot frying pan to cleanse their energy. In urban environments, it is best to do “salt cleaning” weekly.
RECIPE 3.
Well, if a spell has been cast on your house and the owners are in mortal danger, repeat the ritual with the frying pan: the salt will give a warning that the spell really exists, with a crash and loud “shots”.
RECIPE 4.
Salt is also a great healer - it cures bad dreams and insomnia.
If you were born under the sign of Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, dissolve three pinches of salt in water, place the liquid at the head of the head and at the feet on the floor at night.
Those born under the sign of Aries, Taurus, Leo, Virgo, Sagittarius or Capricorn just need to place two "bowls with dry salt at the head of the head and at the feet (on the floor). And in the morning, salt or salt water should be thrown into the toilet.
Do this procedure for three nights in a row, and your sleep will become sound and deep.
RECIPE 5.
But what about salt for its intended purpose - in the kitchen? When adding salt to food, especially soups and sauces, try to speak and think only about good things - remember that your wishes are written in the aura of the dish. Evil words can lead to indigestion. And it’s best if the housewife, when salting food, makes it a rule to read the “Our Father” aloud. This helps maintain health and strength of body and spirit.
CLEANING WITH SALT
Salt in rituals usually symbolizes the element of earth.
Salt is an incredibly strong energy structure, capable of absorbing negativity like a sponge. There are an endless number of rituals (both positive and negative) using salt. It is used to clean stones, jewelry, amulets and amulets, and I will tell you how to use it to clean the subtle body of a person.
TECHNIQUE:
Buy a new pack of salt (regular rock or sea).
Give money on account (do not take change without change).
At home, unseal the packet, take a full handful of salt, pour it into a clean, dry frying pan (you can use the one you cook in; after the ritual, of course, you need to wash it thoroughly).
Throw away the rest of the salt along with the packet.
While the salt is heating, if you are an Orthodox Christian, read the “Our Father” over the salt once, if you are not Orthodox, ask for help from deities or spirits close to you.
Read the plot:
Sacred salt, consecrated salt, take all the nasty things from the servant of God (name) (if you don’t Orthodox faith, then read “born, named”), everything spoiled, everything designated, everything induced, everything smoothed out, drunk with drink, eaten with food, taken with a lining, with an evil word, given by the evil eye, even to a maiden, even a girl, even a young woman, even an old woman, a man, an old man, a small child, a cold dead man, a sister, a brother, a single father, a mother, a married husband or wife. Take it and carry it along the flowing water to the ocean sea, to Buyan Island. As I said, as I wished, so it will be. Amen.
Pour the salt onto a white saucer and place it on the photo of the person being cleaned.
Calcinate the salt in this way for 7 days, with prayer and incantation.
Each time put salt in the photo.
On the eighth day, pour the salt into the river (in flowing water), and place the saucer in the trash.
It is advisable that no one observed your manipulations and no one saw the photograph with salt. And you don’t need to tell anyone about your actions.
If the salt smokes, turns black, and stinks when heated, there is a lot of negativity. You can repeat the procedure in the next lunar cycle. The saucer may crack - it is absolutely damaged. In this case, throw the salt along with the fragments into the trash and start all over again.
This ritual, of course, will not remove severe damage or curses.
To remove very strong negatives, there are more complex techniques (for example, wax casting). But evil eyes, envy, “good” wishes and love spells initial stage you can remove it.
Also, as an addition -
-If you know for sure (and don’t just assume, this is important!!!) that a certain person had a hand in your troubles, after piercing the salt on the first day, you need to throw a set of new sewing needles (which, again, bought “on account” specifically for these purposes), fry them thoroughly, while thinking about your offender and reading:
“Whoever did evil to me, so that he could swallow his own evil. Truly!”
Throw away the needles without touching them with your hands, you need to throw them ONLY into the river, into running water.
On the full moon!
A glass of salt speak --- 9 times
I’ll call salt poverty and bury it in the ground.
When the salt disappears, so will my poverty!
Salt is the earth, but life is sugar for me.
Let it be so.
Pour salt into the hole and cover the stone with earth, put it saying and SO IT WILL BE.
Only once a year can you prepare the so-called Thursday (or black) salt, and in this regard, many people are interested in what it is. This interesting food product is made on the night of Maundy Thursday. And we’ll tell you why it’s needed right now.
First, it’s worth understanding what Thursday salt is, where you can get it, and how to prepare it at home. It is clear that salt is called that because it is prepared on Thursday (Wednesday night). And not on every Thursday, but on Maundy Thursday. This year - on the night of April 5, 2018 (and Easter will take place on April 8).
According to folk legends, this salt has very beneficial properties:
- protects a person from the evil eye, negative thoughts and views of envious people;
- protects health;
- helps to save your household;
- helps to avoid unpleasant events;
- charges with strength for a whole year.
Interestingly, the tradition of preparing the product has existed for several centuries. The first mentions of it that have reached us date back to the 16th century. Initially, salt was prepared in the Moscow region and the Volga region, from where the custom spread throughout the country, right up to Siberia.
The beneficial properties of the powder are explained by the special energy of Maundy Thursday. The fact is that this particular day was the last in Christ’s earthly life - on Friday he would be betrayed and crucified on the cross. In the evening, the Savior arranged a meal with the disciples, where they ate bread and drank wine. Jesus also washed the feet of each apostle, which is why it is believed that on this day you need to bathe thoroughly and put your house in perfect order.
That is why it is at such moments that salt can acquire a special beneficial charge. And thanks to its pure energy, it will protect its owner from damage and the evil eye. And the year will turn out to be successful - the main thing is just to tune in to a positive wave. It’s also useful to know how to prepare and use Thursday salt.
Classic Old Russian recipe
So, it’s clear what Thursday salt is and what it is needed for. Now it would be nice to understand how this product is prepared. For many centuries in Rus' there was the following recipe:
- They took coarse salt and moistened it with water.
- Added pre-soaked bread crumbs made from rye flour (another option is grounds from homemade kvass); the ratios of all components are the same.
- All components were thoroughly mixed and tied in a bag made of natural fabric.
- This bag was placed in a birch bark bast shoe and placed in the stove at the very heat (you can put it in hot ashes).
- Bake long enough for the powder to turn into a solid brick.
- Then it was crushed in a mortar, and the resulting pieces were placed in a container.
As a result, within several hours the salt overheated and then turned black (hence the second name of the healing powder). It is interesting that our ancestors paid attention to every detail that we would not pay attention to today.
For example, during the entire Lent, the housewife set aside one log only on Sundays. And then the stove was heated with this Sunday wood on Maundy Thursday. And salt had to be cooked on them - it was believed that such a flame had cleansing, holy power.
After receiving the product, it was collected in a cup or bag and stored throughout the year, placed next to the icons in a bright corner (it is also called a shrine).
How to use Thursday salt
This product can be used in different ways: first of all, Thursday salt is added to boiled eggs during the Easter meal. Here are a few more original ways:
- It is clear that salt can be used when consuming any other food products, including when pickling vegetables.
- In Siberia, for a long time, Thursday salt was mixed with ash and dissolved in a bucket, which was used to water the beds in spring and summer.
- They also rubbed grains of wheat and other crops in black salt powder, which were then planted in the fields.
- They also put healing salt in a small bag (or in an inner pocket), which they always carried with them as a talisman. It protected against illnesses, unforeseen events, and was even used by soldiers in war.
- If a person gets sick, you can take a small pinch of salt, swallow it and wash it down with water.
- You can also rub a little powder into the area that hurts.
- If livestock fell ill, a small pinch of healthy salt was also added to their drinking bowl.
As for today, you can use Thursday salt as a personal talisman-amulet. To do this, healing salt can be prepared according to simple recipe described below. And then put it in a tight bag and put it in a secret pocket.
Modern recipes
Of course, today almost no one has a Russian stove, but you can prepare Thursday salt in modern conditions. There are quite a lot of recipes, let’s reproduce the simplest one:
- Take rock salt (coarsely ground) and crush it in a mortar - you need to ensure that you get a homogeneous powder.
- Add lemon balm, oregano, thyme, mint and any other herbs you like to the mortar.
- Now we put this whole mixture on a very hot, perfectly dry frying pan or on a baking sheet and put it in the oven (oven temperature +220 o C).
- The salt is heated until its crystals acquire a distinct black tint.
By the way, seasoning soup or other dishes with this salt is a pleasure. The pleasant aroma of herbs will give the food delicate flavor tones. But you shouldn’t be afraid of blackness: the salt itself is sodium chloride, which does not decompose even after heat treatment. That is why overheated salt does not lose its taste. The impurities simply burn, and the herbs (in this recipe), of course, become charred and turn into pure carbon - soot.
NOTE
All preparation work is carried out before sunrise on Maundy Thursday. That is, by the beginning of this day, the salt should be completely ready. You can, for example, do this interesting activity on Wednesday evening.
What is Thursday salt from the point of view of the church
Folk and church traditions have lived side by side for many centuries. Sometimes they are intertwined so much that it is no longer possible to separate one custom from another. Yes, this is not necessary if a person truly believes in the positive development of events and in the power of good deeds. After all, if you think about it, every religion takes human faith as the basis of its teaching. This means that a benevolent attitude and healthy optimism will certainly help each of us.
As for Thursday salt, there is even a special prayer for its consecration. And the church recognizes that this product can also be blessed, like Easter cakes, Easter eggs and other foods. Moreover, this can be done any day.
Thus, Thursday salt is a talisman, a person’s personal amulet, which can become a material symbol of his faith in a favorable development of events. By putting grains of powder in a secret pocket, you can create a certain psychological comfort for yourself, which will help you tune in to bright thoughts.
The final Holy Week of Lent before Easter is rich in rituals and customs. The first half of the week was devoted to cleaning, cleaning, repairing the house and working in the garden. Preparations for the holiday began on Wednesday. Thursday – Clean, Zhilny or Bolshoi – baking of ritual paskas. Friday was particularly quiet in the house. On Big Saturday they prepared for the all-night service.
Thursday was a special day that patronized cleanliness. Not only was the house thoroughly swept and washed, all the utensils in the home were subject to cleaning, all linen and clothes were washed. All family members had to wash themselves before dawn. On this day, livestock was slaughtered and rituals were performed, ingredients that had life-giving properties were prepared.
According to legends, black or Thursday salt. It was originally prepared from coarse rock salt in a Russian oven according to ancient recipes. Usually, processed salt was stored in a linen bag in the kitchen away from prying eyes. They consumed it as a panacea for everything. It served as a talisman for homes and people, could help with illnesses, protected from quarrels, cleansed from the evil eye, and brought prosperity and grace to the household.
How to prepare Thursday salt
The easiest way is to pound the snow-white rock salt, place it in a bag and store it near the fireplace until Maundy Thursday. On a holy day, bake in the oven and take it to church for consecration. Such charmed salt serves as protection against all evil, and diluted in water cures diseases.
Or, combine salt with the grounds of homemade bread kvass or with softened black bread. Instead, you can chop cabbage leaves or a mixture of aromatic herbs. Burn the prepared mixture until it is black in the oven - the salt is enriched minerals and acquires dark color. Afterwards, use a sieve to shake and pour the salt into containers for normal use. Use the remaining ash as Activated carbon to remove toxic substances from the body and to cure numerous dermatological diseases.
They take ordinary salt to church and celebrate the service. They are left on the table for the holy night or transferred to the yard under the stars. They cast a spell early in the morning when the sun is rising, pour it onto the palm of one hand and rotate it over it with the other, and read the spell. Spellbound in this way Thursday salt for spoilage and will protect you from scandals. By performing special magical rituals using gold and silver, rock salt was endowed with strong cleansing qualities.
Thursday Salt and Orthodoxy
Indeed, there is a very ancient “Prayer over the salt” for its consecration. This blessing descended on salt, since it is considered a necessary food for man, given by the earth. It is worth noting that the liturgical books do not establish the need to bless salt on any specific day.
When ordinary means are insufficient, people turn to conspiracies and the help of magicians. Misfortunes, bad luck and everyday quarrels are often attributed to higher powers and, accordingly, to get rid of them, they turn to magic and witchcraft. Healers use Thursday salt treatment, sorcerers remove damage, and every magician considers salt an important and necessary attribute.
Pagan superstitions appeared in infinitely ancient times. The use of Thursday salt, according to many well-known customs, very often runs counter to Christian beliefs. Moreover, they are blasphemous superstitions. These prejudices are pagan, and while retaining their essence, they are associated in human consciousness with pious celebration. True Orthodox traditions are in no way united with Thursday salt.
Thursday salt is closely associated with Easter holidays, but was it really prepared according to church regulations? Yes, it is prepared on Maundy Thursday, it is recommended to be blessed with Easter cakes and colored eggs, and is used in miraculous rituals to protect and fight illnesses. But, it also helps sorcerers and magicians in practice.