How to Make Black Salt

Black Salt is used in spells and rituals involving banishing magick, as added protection against negative energy
and to remove hexes and jinxes. Black Salt may be sprinkled around your home or property, added to
banishing sachets, incenses, and herbal mixtures. A little Black Salt goes a long way. Of course you may
purchase Black Salt but it is much more powerful to create your own. To make:
Burn banishing herbs on a charcoal disc inside your cauldron. Allow the charcoal and herbs to burn down
completely.
Scrape the inside of your cauldron with a sharp spoon or knife.
Crush the scrapings in a mortar and pestle then add plain white salt or natural sea salt. Use about twice the
amount of salt as scrapings.
Crush and mix the salt and scrapings together while concentrating on banishing energies.
Put the newly created black salt into a little jar and label it.

Witches Black Salt (also known as Sal Negro and Hoodoo Salt) has a long history of use in rituals of purification, protection &
blessing. Pagans, Wiccans, and Hoodoo practitioners use black salt in their rituals. It is intended to be used to rid things of negative
energies and to keep negative energy away.

Various Uses for Black Salt:
-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 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.
-Add to War Water, Hot Foot Powder, Graveyard Dirt, & Rattlesnake Salt for extra potency.
-Sprinkle in an enemys yard, office, or footsteps so that they will want to leave or move.
-Use to symbolize the waning moon, eclipses, & new moons.

These are times for endings, binding work, trance & journeying to Under Realms, & uncrossing or removing curses.
-Fire energy, chthonic or darker earthly Elementals & Deities, especially Crone or Triple Goddesses, War Gods, & darker forest
beings.
-Mitigate the negative effects of Mercury Retrograde.
-For Spirit Callings & Ancestor works and Samhain rituals.
-Sprinkle liberally on items or possessions that you feel have bad memories or attachments to them.

Black Salt can be used 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.

Remember
-Black Salt absorbs negative energy so it can only be used once. Change it out or sweep it up weekly or when the air feels
oppressive & mucky. When discarding black salt, consider where the negativity will go:

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 an enemys yard.

2)Cast in the wind in a distant place blowing away from your home-work. Some will blow this from their hand into the four directions
or at a crossroads.

3)Throw into a fire along with paper where you have written all your worries and whatever else you want to be rid off. Do not use
these ashes to make any other ritual items.

4)Cast into living water meaning running active water. This will disperse the energies and cleanse them. Rivers, creeks, lakes, and
oceans. Even a ditch or your toilet will do and may be very effective in flushing junk out of your life!