As everyone knows, you need to be careful with salt, if you know what's good for you. Spilling salt is bad luck. In fact, it has been said that every grain of salt you spill is a tear you'll shed later! And, if you do spill salt, you'll want to quickly toss it over your left shoulder, to ward off bad luck, and more importantly, the devil. But, there are some lesser known safety precautions you may want to know about!
Still, salt itself is considered good luck. In fact, people were once advised to carry some sea salt in their pocket, when, for example, they were going on a new journey, as it would bring them good luck. Salt is a preservative and is considered incorruptible and immortal. It prevents decay and is associated with God, making it the enemy of any force that seeks to destroy. That is why the devil hates it.
There were some older versions of the spilled salt superstition. It was once thought that if you spilled salt, the bad luck would go to the person that the salt falls toward, rather than to the person who spilled it.