blessed salt
Consecrated sodium chloride
Blessed salt is ordinary salt that has received a blessing from a priest or minister, used in Catholic and some other Christian traditions for spiritual protection and purification.
It may be sprinkled in homes, added to holy water, or used in exorcism rites.
The blessing is believed to set the salt apart for sacred purposes: She kept blessed salt by the doorway.
- sprinklingSmall scattered amount
- sign of the crossChristian devotional gesture
- Catholic traditionRome's transmitted faith practices
- holy waterSacramental liquid for blessings
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
casting out demons · purity · cleansing · preservation · anointing oil · prayer · consecration · burial rites · healing rituals · folk magic · spiritual cleansing · protection · incense · chrism · baptismal font · sanctification · sacred objects · altar cloth
- Catholic Itemsrosary beads, crucifix, rosary, holy water font, holy card
- church itemscrucifix, altarpiece, altar cloth, altar candles, monstrance
- prayer itemsprayer beads, prayer book, prayer rug, prayer mat, prayer shawl
- ritual foodscommunion wafer, communion wine, communion wafers, sacramental wine, seder
- sacred objectsrelic, relics, reliquaries, reliquary, holy relic
- sacred substancesholy water, holy oil, communion wine, communion wafer, chrism
blessed saltcommon salt
Sodium chloride for eating
table salt · sea salt · kosher salt · rock salt · road salt
blessed saltunholy water
Ritually corrupted sacred liquid
black salt · cursed objects · bane · graveyard dirt · brimstone
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