https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-salt/ Learn Homesteading Skills Online Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-salt/#comment-74673 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:55:33 +0000 https://www.homestead.org/?p=8695#comment-74673 and I must say I REALLY REALLY like this one, “It was also used to keep away any unwanted company. Perhaps you had a visitor that you didn’t want to return, all you had to do was sprinkle some on the floor and doorstep of your home as soon as they left. Then sweep it up and burn it; your unwanted guest would not revisit.” I am gonna try it! I mean it can’t hurt! LOL

]]> https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-salt/#comment-74601 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:52:33 +0000 https://www.homestead.org/?p=8695#comment-74601 Thank you Catherine for this well researched and informative article. I am especially interested as recently I had a salt dream. In this dream I was filling jars up with salt, as I did so I was thinking how all the jars were different shapes and sizes. Then a voice said, “It matters not the size nor the shape of the jar, just fill them all to the brim with salt. I would enjoy reading anyone’s interpretation of this dream but meanwhile i am taking it literally and buying and storing salt ( :

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