# Black Protection Salt

> Coarse sea salt darkened with activated charcoal and hearth ash, for the old folk custom of drawing a dark line across a threshold. A working salt in a corked jar, not for the table.

Price: 13.00 USD · in stock

## About
A thin dark line across the doorstep, drawn at dusk. Salt blackened with ash or charcoal turns up independently across a wide range of folk-magic traditions, nearly always for the same purpose: laid at a threshold, it is said to bar ill will from crossing over.This is a working salt, not a culinary one, and quite different from the volcanic black salt sold in spice shops, though the two are easy to confuse by name. It is blended in small batches from food-grade sea salt ground together with activated charcoal and a portion of hearth ash, and mixed until the color is even throughout rather than streaky. Each coarse grain is dusted gray-black, heavier and grittier than table salt, with a faint smoky smell that clings if you rub a pinch between your fingers. The jar is hand-filled and finished with a cork lid, heavier in the hand than its modest size suggests.DetailsIngredients: food-grade sea salt, activated charcoal, hearth ashBlended in small batches; hand-filled jar with cork lidNot for culinary useHow to useSprinkle a thin line across a doorstep or windowsill, or tuck a small pinch into the corners of a room that has felt unsettled. It is not food: keep it well away from the kitchen shelf, and out of reach of children. Its work, by old custom, is at the threshold, not the table.