Thursday salt - we prepare it for the whole year! Thursday salt: beneficial properties and recipes Thursday salt according to the canons of Orthodoxy

“Christina: What kind of knots are these, mother, you have tied?
Chudikhina: My soul, nothing. One contains Thursday salt, and the other contains dew incense.”
Catherine II, play “Oh Time!”

Over the past month, the thought has constantly come to me to find a story about "Thursday salt"(for some reason it seemed that I had read about it from Metropolitan Veniamin Fedchenkov, but it turned out that it was from Elder Pavel Gruzdyev), and I kept thinking that I needed to find him and put salt to be blessed under the icons. And so, today is Maundy Thursday - the Last Supper, on which the Lord Jesus established the sacrament of communion, and also showed an example of humility by washing the feet of the apostles. And it turns out that it is on this day and only once a year that “Thursday salt” is prepared.

Our Orthodox Christians are already so, pardon the word, afraid of everything supernatural that they simply cleanse the living faith of any mysticism (in the Orthodox sense of the word), miracles, throwing it onto the Procrustean bed of clear frameworks that are served by rational logic. So regarding “Thursday Salt” - just look on the Internet - there is a strict taboo: "This is witchcraft, folk paganism and complete ignorance." For example, the most complete and quite interesting material on the ostracism of this phenomenon: E. M. Skeeter “What is “Thursday salt”?” , which contains quite a large and interesting material about folk superstitions and the use of “Thursday salt”. Yes, this is a fact, sorcerers, pagans and other lost ones change everything in their own way, the same prayers, transforming them into spells, but they also use Orthodox icons, and according to this logic, we must now abandon icons.

You can't put God's grace into a box. And the Lord especially repeated:"according to your faith be it done to you"(Matt.9:29)

In general, let’s leave skeptics to label the superstitious, but personally, I firmly believe that everything that touches a shrine has a special grace. The same Artos, who stands near the iconostasis throughout Easter Week (skeptics will say that a special prayer is being read over him - well, read your prayer on salt), the same oil from the lamp on the throne on Easter, I firmly believe that he has a special grace, and indeed from any liturgy [see. note: ]; basil behind the icons of the Virgin Mary [see. note: ], and just candles that the bishop blessed, according to the testimony of one unknown layman; what can we say about consecrated oil, from which there are constantly nothing but miracles in curing diseases and ailments [see. note: ], etc. and so on.

In general, let some people brand it, and we’ll just quote:

Thursday salt by Pavel Gruzdev

Every Maundy Thursday the priest prepared “Thursday salt.” He told me how to do it too. I asked him what it was for. He replied: “I give to people, I also give to animals.” And he said that the neighbors’ sheep was dying. We came to him. “And I made three bows to the Queen of Heaven and gave them Thursday salt. They dissolved it in water, gave it to the sheep, and it recovered.”

Since ancient times, the Russian people have had a custom on the eve of Maundy Thursday to place a sieve with grain, baked bread and a salt cellar of salt specially prepared in the oven in the hut under the icons (it was called “Thursday”). Having prayed to God, the owners they left all this in the holy corner until the first day of Easter. The grain was poured into bins so that there would be no shortage of bread. Baked bread was given to the cattle when they were released into the pasture for the first time in the spring, so that the cattle would not go missing. Quaternary salt was used as medicine and to avoid various misfortunes.

Thursday salt on Mount Athos

Many Russian traditions have been preserved on Mount Athos, although they have already been lost in Russia. Thursday salt is prepared on Maundy Thursday during Holy Week before Easter. Thursday salt is prepared only in a Russian oven. What a pity that the modern magical attitude towards the Orthodox Tradition has distorted even such an innocent preparation of ordinary consecrated salt.- [Mount Athos portal]

For a long time on Mount Athos there was a custom of preparing “Black Salt”, or as it is also called “Thursday Salt”. Black salt was prepared for the entire coming year and it was this salt that had healing properties and contributed to the cleansing of the body and soul

Thursday salt helped with illnesses. This was noticed. Salt was prepared only in a Russian oven. To do this, coarse rock salt must be ground in a mortar (you cannot use iodized fine salt!). Sometimes it was wrapped in a cloth and baked in an oven.

In the Russian hinterland, salt was mixed with thick kvass grounds, in which the salt was dissolved, and the mixture was evaporated in an oven (nowadays in cities they bake in the oven, although this is a deviation from the rules). In the cooled mixture, the kvass grounds are winnowed from salt.

In recent years, often, especially in the pre-Easter period, you have probably heard and read about the so-called “Thursday salt”. You can easily find existing recipes for its preparation on the Internet. The most common method can be considered the following: table salt (sometimes with the addition of kvass grounds) is burned in a stove or oven (hence another name - “ black salt"). It is said that this salt must be prepared once a year - on Maundy Thursday (popularly called Maundy Thursday). Black salt is the artificial color that table salt turns when baked.

It should be noted that most of the materials devoted to “Thursday salt” are on occult Internet sites and forums, where it is reported, for example, that this salt cleanses the body, treats diseases, has “magical powers,” protects against the evil eye and “helps” in the fight with enemies. The reader is offered various ways to use “Thursday salt” in magical rituals. Sometimes it is recommended to consecrate “Thursday salt” in church along with Easter cakes and eggs before such use.

It’s no secret, of course, that “sorcerers” and “psychics” use church relics in their practice: icons, holy water... You can read about this here.

And since the preparation of “Thursday salt” is often mentioned in the same breath as Easter cakes, colored eggs and Easter, the question may arise: isn’t “Thursday salt” one of the truly church traditions that have only been forgotten in recent years?

All sacred ministers answer this question in the negative. They say that the belief in the miraculous power of “Thursday salt” is one of the many pagan superstitions that arose in ancient times. And that it is easy to learn about this from scientific (ethnographic and church-historical) literature. Let's turn to her.

As A. Toporkov pointed out, in the folk beliefs of the Slavs, “salt is a symbol used independently and in combination with bread mainly as a talisman.”

Rituals of amulets with salt:

The salt that has dissolved in the food is associated with its invisible, but extremely significant for the taste sensations, the meaning, the essence of the food - its “salt” in a figurative sense. Attributing the functions of a talisman to salt is based on its material properties: salt is produced by man and belongs to the world of culture, helps preserve food and can be thrown in the face of a pest (amulet formulas like: “Salt in your eyes, a firebrand in your teeth, a pot between your cheeks” are widely known "). In the Vologda province, after giving birth, a woman was taken to a bathhouse, while the midwife rubbed her forehead with salt and said: “Just as this salt is not afraid of the eye, nor the heat, nor disgrace, nor slander, so you, the servant of God (name), are not I was afraid of neither slander nor slander” - and threw the salt backhand. In Belarus, salt was placed in the ears of a newborn during baptism to protect him from evil spirits. In Turkey, since ancient times, newborns have been rubbed with salt to prevent the evil eye and sweating (and this tradition has been preserved to this day in some mountainous regions of the country).

According to Ukrainian belief, the evil spirit is afraid of salt. In the Vladimir province they thought that the devil was afraid of salt and would never approach the fire if salt was thrown into it...

In rituals associated with the birth of a child and at a wedding, salt, as a rule, was combined with bread and expressed positive meanings, protecting the bread and the house as a whole from the influence of hostile forces, and when treating bread and salt, symbolizing the establishment of friendly relations between people, it gave this relationship has a touch of heartfelt intimacy...

… Salt, like other types of food, widely, and in terms of “salinity” it is close to human sweat. For example, in the Novgorod province, the bride, coming to the bathhouse, undressed and lay down on the shelf to sweat thoroughly; the godmother wiped her with a bundle of salt so that the salt became wet from sweat; she squeezed the sweaty moisture out of the salt onto the pie brought to the bathhouse, which is fed to the young man after the wedding, so that he would love his wife, and the bride herself put the salt in a pot of cabbage soup, which is treated to the groom’s relatives at the wedding dinner, so that all his relatives would love her... On the other hand , salty, like bitter, was opposed to sweet (remember the wedding custom that has survived to this day, demanding with cries of “Bitter!” that the newlyweds “sweeten” the alcohol).

Signs with salt:

Everyday handling of salt was fraught with many dangers and was regulated by a number of rules and prohibitions. Some of them are still observed not only in village life, but also in city life, although they have been relegated to half-joking signs. If salt spills, there will be a quarrel. In this case, you need to throw the salt or spit over your left shoulder three times, as if driving away the “evil spirits.” When passing a salt shaker to another person at the table, you need to laugh so as not to quarrel with him. It was not allowed to dip bread in the salt shaker, for this is what Judas did at the Last Supper, and at that moment Satan entered into him by the hand.”

So, salt, according to popular belief, can protect against hostile forces and influences.

The preparation on Maundy Thursday was endowed with special power. Thursday salt" This is not accidental: as T. Agapkina noted, Maundy Thursday in folk life was associated with the performance of many different rituals designed to ensure well-being in the family and household for the entire coming year.

How to make Thursday salt:

Healing powers were attributed to “Thursday salt”. In the 19th century, it was usually obtained this way: on the night from Wednesday to Thursday of Holy Week or on the morning of Maundy Thursday, salt, wrapped in a clean rag or placed in a bowl (and sometimes in an old bast shoe), was burned in the oven. (Fire, which, according to popular beliefs, had a cleansing ability, thus “strengthened” the “protective” properties of salt.) In some areas, salt was simply taken outside under the stars. In the Kaluga province, not only salt, but also soap, ash and water were taken out under the stars at night to make them healing. Sometimes healing properties were attributed to salt, which lay on the table next to bread on the night before Holy Thursday.

During the Easter meal, “Thursday salt” was used to salt consecrated eggs, which were used to break the fast after Easter Matins.

“Thursday” salt was stored throughout the year. It was also used as a universal remedy in the treatment of a variety of diseases (both in humans and domestic animals). The peasants took it internally, rubbed it with its solution, and gave sick cattle bread salted with it or diluted a pinch in a drinking bowl. As a talisman, “Thursday” salt was sewn into an amulet and worn on the chest.

According to popular belief, along with “Thursday”, also had healing properties. "Blagoveshchenskaya" salt. It was prepared in the same way, but only for the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (March 25 of the Old Art. / April 7 of the New Art.).

Need I say that the folk customs listed above, from the point of view of Christian doctrine, are superstition, often blasphemous? The surviving pagan beliefs in many cases did not change their essence, although they were associated in the minds of the people with church holidays, events and persons of Sacred history. Likewise, the preparation of “Thursday salt,” says priest Alexy Makarov, has nothing in common with the real traditions of Orthodoxy.

Let's now talk about church practice itself. In the Trebnik there is a prayer for the consecration of salt - “ Prayer over salt" “The Church sanctifies in its prayers the most necessary product of the earth for humans - salt,” wrote Archpriest Gennady Nefedov. - Prayer over salt is one of the oldest... In the spiritual sense, salt means the saving teaching of Christ and the holy life of His preachers (Matthew 5:13). The New Testament Church uses salt for the bread offered as a bloodless sacrifice and blessed at all-night vigils. The Church blesses salt as an essential food product.” But in the liturgical books there is no indication of the need to consecrate salt on any specific day of the year. In S. V. Bulgakov’s “Handbook for Clergy,” we also will not find instructions for the consecration of salt either on Maundy Thursday or on Easter.

So, folk belief in the healing power of “Thursday salt” dates back and has nothing to do with the church “prayer over salt”. But remnants of paganism existed among the people, and, as Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev noted, “it would be strange if the interaction between the church teaching and the people went only in one direction. The clergy also could not help but experience the influence of the people (especially since in terms of the level of theological education they were often almost no different from them).” There are cases in the history of the Church when the clergy accepted the pagan beliefs of parishioners. Thus, at the beginning of the 4th century, the Council of Elvira (in Spain) with its 34th rule prohibited lighting candles in a cemetery during the day - “so as not to disturb the souls of the saints.” In the Greek Church at one time there was a rite of cursing a criminal with psalms (Psalmokathar) ... “Sometimes even the clergy is able to follow the lead of the beliefs of parishioners, while transgressing the Gospel and patristic commandments.” Let us make a reservation, however, that such cases are very rare, since the Church has always sharply resisted attempts to “sanctify” superstitions with its authority.

In a relationship " Thursday salt“Such attempts have already happened. This is evidenced by the Council of the Hundred Heads, held during the reign of Ivan the Terrible (1551): “On Great Thursday they burn straw and call out the dead; Some neveglas [ignorant] priests put salt under the altar on Maundy Thursday and keep it there until the Seventh Thursday after Velitsa [Easter] and give that salt for healing of people and livestock.”

Professor P. V. Znamensky in the “History of the Russian Church”, in a chapter with the characteristic title “The Sad State of Enlightenment in the 16th Century,” wrote the following about that time:

“Everywhere, not only among the common people, but also in the upper classes and in the princely family, numerous superstitions prevailed. The wife of Grand Duke Vasily Ioannovich, unfortunate Solomonia, thought to get rid of infertility through healers. Vasily himself, having married Elena Glinskaya, called upon sorcerers to help him produce offspring with their spells. Ivan the Terrible also consulted with the Magi, although sometimes he brutally executed them. The people resorted to witches in all cases where ordinary human means seemed insufficient. Traditional medicine consisted entirely of spells and magic remedies. National and private disasters, failures, family discord, etc. were constantly attributed to witchcraft, and the means to eliminate them was witchcraft. penetrated into the very Christianity of the people. received a Christian form by replacing in their proclamations the names of mythical powers with the names of saints; on the other hand, some Christian prayers turned into conspiracies through the communication of magical powers to them in the popular consciousness; lists of them were worn around the neck, kept in homes as talismans, and used in witchcraft. Magicians used even sacred objects for their own purposes, for example, they cast mallow cups over prosphora,... priests... placed a child’s afterbirth on the altar for 6 weeks in the church. Various fortune-telling notebooks were passed around - Rafli, Aristotle's Gate, Six-winged. Since the 16th century, astrological superstitions and fortune-telling came to us from the West, placed in Ostronumei, Zodei, Almanacs... The apocryphal works of the West were added to the Bulgarian, Greek and home-grown apocrypha... The bans on renounced books (in the Enlightener, Domostroy, Stoglavnik) worked poorly. Even the best shepherds of the church could not always distinguish a true book from a false one. We find apocryphal tales and references to them in the works of Metropolitan Daniel, in the collections of Metropolitan Macarius, in the definitions of Stoglav, even in Maxim the Greek. Prince Kurbsky sharply remarks about the teachers of his time that they studied not so much the true scriptures as women’s nonsense and Bulgarian fables.”

And yet, in these conditions, the Hundred-Glavy Council showed enough Christian wisdom to reject a number of attempts at the penetration of superstitions into the church environment, and among them was the specified unique method of obtaining church "sanctions" on "Thursday salt". The resolution of the Council on this matter read: “The commandment is that on Holy Thursday they should not burn straw or call the dead, and priests should not put salt under the altar on Maundy Thursday, and they should not keep the days until the Seventh Thursday in Velitsa, because such is the charm of Hellenism and blasphemy heretical. And whoever does such a priest will be subject to excommunication and final eruption according to the sacred rule.”

In the 19th century cases were recorded when priests in some provinces blessed “Thursday salt” in churches. But this practice should be seen only as a concession to popular beliefs. It is possible, however, that sometimes the clergy tried to give the popular belief a Christian look. Be that as it may, “from the fact that something took place in the Russian past, it does not in any way follow that this something has been sanctified and Christianized by history and that it should be restored as an Orthodox or national shrine. Intertwined with the Tradition of the Church were many local customs and traditions that were actually alien to Orthodoxy. Often today, those pagan prejudices with which the Church has struggled for centuries are called Orthodox-Russian traditions.”

So and " Thursday salt"Nowadays it is becoming popular again. At the same time, people, convinced of its miraculous power, again seek to win the Church over to their side. This causes understandable bewilderment among parishioners: “In our city there is a convent next to the church. And so on Thursday, in the last week of Lent, during the service, the nun brought salt in a plastic bag, the priest came up and read prayers. The parishioners standing nearby also took a handful of this salt from the bag, for which the abbess scolded the nun. And when the next year my sister and I came on the same day (Thursday of the last week of Lent) with the hope of also consecrating salt, nothing like that happened. I asked one of the nuns about this, she replied that this was the first time she had heard about the consecration of salt, that she had never seen or heard anything like this.

So what is Thursday salt, why is it done?” asks a participant in one of the Orthodox Internet forums.

The priest rightly remarks in response: “I don’t know who elevated this salt to the rank of a special shrine (in the missal there is a prayer over salt, but this is not the consecration of the Holy Thursday salt, but simply a prayer, similar to the prayer for the blessing of livestock, sowing and vegetables). Now this custom is becoming popular in some parishes and monasteries, but this is nothing more than an unauthorized innovation. You can approach this in different ways - you can read a prayer over salt, you can bring it on a certain day for consecration - too. However, it is strange to attribute to her any special healing power or grace. The use of this salt is limited to cooking only, so it is nothing more than blessed salt from the temple.

The healing properties attributed to it remain on the conscience of the distributors of these stories. According to faith, of course, there can be healing from salt, but we have holy water and other shrines...

And finally, Holy Communion!”

In recent years, it is not uncommon, especially in the pre-Easter period, to hear and read about the so-called “Thursday salt.” You can easily find existing recipes for its preparation on the Internet. It is said that this salt must be prepared once a year - on Maundy Thursday (popularly called Maundy Thursday).

It must be noted that Most of the materials dedicated to “Thursday salt” are located on occult Internet sites and forums , where it is reported, for example, that this salt cleanses the body, treats diseases, has “magical powers,” protects against the evil eye and “helps” in the fight against enemies. The reader is offered various ways use of "Thursday salt" in magical rituals . Sometimes it is recommended to consecrate “Thursday salt” in church along with Easter cakes and eggs before such use.

It's no secret, of course, that “sorcerers” and “psychics” use church relics in their practice: icons, holy water... And since the preparation of “Thursday salt” is often mentioned in the same breath as Easter cakes, colored eggs and Easter, the question may arise: isn’t “Thursday salt” one of the truly church traditions, only forgotten during the years of Soviet power?

We are forced to answer this question in the negative. The fact is that the belief in the miraculous power of “Thursday salt” is one of the many pagan superstitions that arose in ancient times.

In Slavic folk beliefs, salt is a symbol used mainly as a talisman. Salt, according to popular belief, can protect against hostile forces and influences. The “Thursday salt” prepared on Maundy Thursday was endowed with special powers. This is no coincidence: Maundy Thursday in folk life was associated with the performance of many different rituals designed to ensure well-being in the family and household for the entire coming year. Among the Eastern Slavs, Holy Thursday was almost universally called Clean Thursday. The cleansing rites of Maundy Thursday concerned not only the person himself, but also his immediate environment, primarily his home and utensils. At dawn on this day or on the eve of it, the housewives washed and scrubbed the floors, walls, ceilings, tables and benches, cleaned the icon lamps, steamed milk dishes, shook the straw from the beds, etc.

Besides, Superstitious veneration of the “passionate” or “Thursday” candle, bread, and salt was widespread among the people; healing powers were attributed to them.

“Thursday” salt was stored throughout the year. It was used against the “evil eye” and as a universal remedy for the treatment of a variety of diseases (both in humans and in domestic animals). The peasants took it internally, rubbed it with its solution, and gave sick cattle bread salted with it or diluted a pinch in a drinking bowl. As a talisman, “Thursday” salt was sewn into an amulet and worn on the chest.

Need I say that from the point of view of Christian doctrine, the folk customs listed above are superstition, often blasphemous? The surviving pagan beliefs in many cases did not change their essence, although they were associated in the minds of the people with church holidays, events and persons of Sacred history. Yes and the preparation of “Thursday salt” has nothing to do with the real traditions of Orthodoxy.

Let's now talk about church practice itself. In the Trebnik there is a prayer for the consecration of salt - “Prayer over salt.” Prayer over salt is one of the oldest... In the spiritual sense, salt means the saving teaching of Christ and the holy life of His preachers (Matthew 5:13). The New Testament Church uses salt for the bread offered as a bloodless sacrifice and blessed at all-night vigils. The Church also blesses salt as an essential food product. But in the liturgical books there is no indication of the need to consecrate salt on any specific day of the year. In S. V. Bulgakov’s “Handbook for Clergy,” we also will not find instructions for the consecration of salt either on Maundy Thursday or on Easter.

So, the popular belief in the healing power of “Thursday salt” goes back to pre-Christian mythological ideas and is in no way connected with the church “prayer over salt”. But remnants of paganism existed among the people. The clergy also could not help but experience the influence of the people (especially since in terms of the level of theological education they were often almost no different from them). There are cases in the history of the Church when the clergy accepted the pagan beliefs of parishioners. Thus, at the beginning of the 4th century, the Elvira Cathedral (in Spain), with its 34th rule, prohibited lighting candles in the cemetery during the day - “so as not to disturb the souls of the saints.” In the Greek Church at one time there was a rite of cursing a criminal with psalms (Psalmokatara) ... Sometimes even the clergy is able to follow the lead of the beliefs of parishioners, thereby overstepping the Gospel and patristic commandments. Let us make a reservation, however, that such cases are very rare, since The Church has always strongly resisted attempts to “sanctify” superstitions with its authority.

In relation to “Thursday salt”, such attempts have already happened. In the 16th century, numerous superstitions prevailed everywhere, not only among the common people, but also among the upper classes and the princely family. This is evidenced by the Council of the Hundred Heads that took place during the reign of Ivan the Terrible (1551): “On Holy Thursday they burn straw and call out the dead; Some neveglas [ignorant] priests put salt under the throne on Maundy Thursday and keep it there until the Seventh Thursday after Velitsa [Easter] and give that salt for healing people and livestock.”

In those days, traditional medicine consisted entirely of spells and magic remedies. National and private disasters, failures, family discord, etc. were constantly attributed to witchcraft, and witchcraft was the means to eliminate them. The spirit of magic penetrated into the very Christianity of the people. Conspiracies received a Christian form, replacing in their appeals the names of mythical forces with the names of saints; on the other hand, some Christian prayers turned into conspiracies through the communication of magical powers to them in the popular consciousness; lists of them were worn around the neck, kept in homes as talismans, and used in witchcraft. Magicians used even sacred objects for their own purposes, for example, they cast mallow cups over prosphora,... priests... placed a child’s afterbirth on the altar for 6 weeks in the church. Various fortune-telling notebooks passed from hand to hand - Rafli, Aristotle's Gate, Six-Wing. Since the 16th century, astrological superstitions and fortune-telling have come to us from the West, placed in Ostronumey, Zodey, Almanacs...

But still Stoglavy Cathedral (1551) in these conditions showed enough Christian wisdom to reject a number of attempts to penetrate superstitions into the church environment, and among them was the indicated unique method of obtaining church “sanction” for “Thursday salt”. The resolution of the Council on this matter read: “The commandment is that on Maundy Thursday they should not burn straw and not call the dead, and priests would not put salt under the throne on Maundy Thursday, and they would not keep the days until the Seventh Thursday in Velitsa, since such is Hellenic charm and heretical blasphemy. And whoever does such a priest will be subject to excommunication and final eruption according to the sacred rule.”

Surprisingly, “Thursday salt” is becoming popular again these days. At the same time, people, convinced of its miraculous power, again seek to win the Church over to their side. This causes understandable confusion among parishioners: “In our city there is a convent next to the temple. And so on Thursday, in the last week of Lent, during the service, the nun brought salt in a plastic bag, the priest came up and read prayers. The parishioners standing nearby also took a handful of this salt from the bag, for which the abbess scolded the nun. And when the next year my sister and I came on the same day (Thursday of the last week of Lent) with the hope of also consecrating salt, nothing like that happened. I asked one of the nuns about this, she replied that this was the first time she had heard about the consecration of salt, that she had never seen or heard anything like this.

So what is Thursday salt, what is it used for?- asks a participant in one of the Orthodox Internet forums.

The priest rightly remarks in response: “I don’t know who elevated this salt to the rank of a special shrine (in the missal there is a prayer over salt, but this is not the consecration of the pure Thursday salt, but simply a prayer, similar to the prayer for the blessing of livestock, sowing and vegetables). Now this custom is becoming popular in some parishes and monasteries, but this is nothing more than an unauthorized innovation. You can approach this in different ways - you can read a prayer over salt, you can bring it on a certain day for consecration, too. However, it is strange to attribute to her any special healing power or grace. The use of this salt is limited to cooking only, so it is nothing more than blessed salt from the temple. The healing properties attributed to it remain on the conscience of the distributors of these stories. According to faith, of course, there can be healing from salt, but we have holy water and other shrines... And finally, Holy Communion!”

Thus, “Thursday salt” is a pagan superstition. Its preparation and use are magical manipulations that contradict church teaching. Orthodox Christians should remember the words of the Apostle Paul, who warned against following empty deception, according to human tradition, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ ( cm.: Col. 2:8).

Magic salt (Thursday or blessed) may be required for some magical rituals. Thursday salt (consecrated) is capable of neutralizing negative energy both close to oneself and at some distance. Thursday salt is also capable of cleansing the human body from the effects of black magic (, etc.). There are several ways to create magic salt, but in this article we will analyze only two of them.

How to make Thursday salt

As the name itself suggests, “Thursday salt” is created on a certain day of the week, namely Thursday. This is done as follows. On any Thursday, take regular table salt (preferably the finest grind) and pour it into some container, such as a wooden or glass cup. Then fold both hands over it in the form of a house and read the prayer:

“God our Savior, who appeared through the prophet Jeremiah in Jericho. And so, through salt, he made healthy harmful water! You yourself bless this salt and make it an offering of joy. For Thou art OUR God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.”

Then place the bowl of salt on the windowsill so that the sun's rays fall on it and leave it alone for three days. At the end of the third day after sunset, Thursday salt will be ready for use in magical rituals.

How to bless table salt

To create illuminated salt, we will also use ordinary table salt, as in the first case. The rite of consecration of salt is carried out over three days.

On the first day, heat the salt by pouring it into a frying pan and placing it on an open fire. The salt needs to be heated for thirty minutes. Then, while the salt is still hot, it must be poured into a storage container, preferably made of natural material (wood, ceramics). Before doing this, place gold jewelry at the bottom of the container (gold should be of the highest standard) and leave it like that until the next day.

On the second day, take out your gold and again set the salt to heat over the fire. This time we “fry” the salt for twenty minutes. Then pour the salt back into the storage container, putting silver jewelry there (silver should also be of high standard - it is not advisable to put silverware).

On the third day, remove the silver from the cup of salt and let it heat for the third time for ten minutes. Then, while the salt is cooling, stretch your hands over the bowl and feel the warmth emanating from it. Hold your hands over the salt for ten minutes, trying to breathe slowly and evenly. Now the salt is completely ready.

How to cleanse a person using magic salt

One of the most dangerous actions directed against a person is damage and love spells inflicted on him with the help of food and drink. At the same time, negative, narrowly focused energy corrodes a person directly from the inside, completely depriving the body of the ability to protect itself. To neutralize this negative energy and remove it from the human body, you will need magic salt.

To do this, stir a spoonful of magic salt (Thursday or blessed) in a liter of clean spring water and give it to the person who has been damaged or a love spell to drink it in order to neutralize the “infection.” You don’t have to drink water at once - you can drink a glass every half hour.

If after this a person begins to feel sick, vomiting or diarrhea occurs, this will mean that the neutralization of the damage is successful and the body has been cleansed. The next day we repeat the cleansing procedure. Two times is usually enough to neutralize the effects of black magic. But if the damage to the body by dark forces turned out to be stronger than expected, then the procedure of drinking a solution of magic salt should be repeated again.

Magic salt to reveal the lining

If you have had a lining (a magical action performed using an object), then you urgently need to find this object, as it can be a powerful source of dark energy of destruction. To determine which one is this source, we will again use the magic salt.

If you have any doubts about an object that, in your opinion, brings negativity to your home, then you need to immerse it in magic salt, provided that it is small in size. If this object is large, then proceed as follows. On a flat surface we draw a circle of magic salt, pouring it counterclockwise. In the center of the circle we place the object that you want to check for traces of black magic.

In this case, the magic salt completely interrupts the flow of negative energy emitted by the infected object. You need to wait at least a week. If you guessed and neutralized the “right” object, then the events in your life will noticeably improve, your affairs will improve, and harmony will come in family relationships.

If you made a mistake and life continues to give you blows, then you should think again and check another gift, even if it is from a person whom you would never think is capable of harming you.

But the magic salt will only do half the job, blocking the impact of the lining on the aura of your home. Having identified an “infected” item, you must get rid of it. If the item is flammable, it is better to burn it. If it is impossible to burn it, then throw this thing into running water.

After you have destroyed the lining, wash the floors in the room where you found it. In this case, it is necessary to dissolve magic salt in the water intended for washing the floor (two tablespoons per bucket).

How to use magic salt

It is best to store Thursday or blessed salt in ceramic or wooden containers (glass can also be used). When creating, use spring or church-blessed water. As a last resort, the water should be river. Tap water is too contaminated to be used for any magical effect.

The magical power of Thursday salt can be greatly weakened by: garbage, litter, dust, dirty water, rusty metal objects, food waste and spoiled food. Therefore, try to protect the magic salt from such proximity.

Of course, a good housewife who carefully takes care of her home is unlikely to allow this, but it is still better to be vigilant and once again make sure that the magic salt is stored reliably.

There is also no need to accumulate old, worn-out items in the house; periodically get rid of this kind of trash; Keep your home clean so that Thursday salt can take care of you with all its magical power.