Sea Salt, fine

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Ritual salts: grind with dried herbs such as rosemary or lavender to make a scented salt for altars, circles and baths.
• Pinch over the shoulder: the old habit of throwing spilled salt over the left shoulder to blind whatever waits there.
• Candle base: pack a dish with fine salt to hold a candle upright during cleansing work.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Powders: fine salt is a base for cleansing and banishing powders, sprinkled across a path or doorway.
• Washes: dissolves quickly for spiritual baths and floor washes.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Salt and water: combined and consecrated for asperging the circle, following the old grimoire instructions for blessed water.

A Simple Working

• Put three tablespoons of fine sea salt in a mortar.
• Add a teaspoon of dried rosemary.
• Grind together until the herb is broken into the salt.
• Speak your intention for the space as you work.
• Sprinkle a pinch in each corner of the room.
• Keep the rest in a lidded jar on your altar.

Pairs Well With

• Rosemary, for a cleansing herb salt.
• Lavender, for a gentler salt for peace and sleep.
• Black pepper, for a sharper banishing powder.
• Frankincense, burned alongside salt work for blessing.

What You Receive

Fine sea salt, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Fine sea salt is evaporated seawater ground to a small grain. Its everyday use is in the kitchen, for seasoning and preserving, where it dissolves faster and spreads more evenly than coarse crystals.

Before a bout, sumo wrestlers throw handfuls of salt into the ring to purify it, a gesture drawn from Shinto rites.

Spilling salt has been held unlucky in Europe for centuries. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, an overturned salt cellar sits by the elbow of Judas.