Salt is often used by hunters to repel ghosts, demons, hellhounds, and other supernatural beings along with use as a condiment.
Usage
Salt may be loaded into a shotgun cartridge and fired at a spirit, forcing it to dissipate harmlessly for a short time. However, this does not destroy the spirit.
Making salt rounds.
Salt can also stop ghosts and demons from entering a room if a hunter simply spills a line of it in front of all entry points, like windows or doors. It can also be poured or spilled into a circle around a victim to create an area of protection that keeps spirits from attacking. A ghost can also be encircled by salt to prevent it from escaping, much like a devil's trap. As revealed in ScoobyNatural, the protection appears as certain force field barrier that inhibit the spirit movement as long the spirit is not powerful enough to disturb the salt line. If a line of salt is broken by any means, a spirit can pass through it. Salt lines can only be broken by creatures that it does not affect.
Dean torturing Alastair with salt.
Salt may also be used to purify human corpses. As it causes intense pain in demons, it may also be used to torture them. It can also be used to force a spirit out of a human's body after possession.
Salt can be used to force a ghost from a person its possessing. Sam used a mouthful of salt to force Dirk MacGregor, Jr. from a high school student he was possessing in After School Special while Dean used a rock salt round to force Chester Johnson from a young teenager he was possessing in Plush.
Fairies have an irresistible urge to count every grain of salt. Sam once poured salt on the floor, forcing Wayne Whittaker, who was a leprechaun, to count each grain, allowing Sam to finish the spell that sent him and the other fairies back to Avalon.
Appearances
- Season 1
- Season 2
- No Exit (used to trap a ghost)
- Roadkill
- Hollywood Babylon
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Season 3
- Jus In Bello (used to repel demons)
- Ghostfacers
- No Rest For The Wicked (used to repel hellhounds)
- Season 4
- Lazarus Rising (used by Dean at the gas station)
- In The Beginning
- Yellow Fever
- Family Remains
- After School Special (used to force a ghost out)
- Death Takes A Holiday (used by Alastair to harm the astral forms of Sam and Dean)
- On The Head Of A Pin (used to torture Alastair)
- Season 5
- Good God, Y'all (used by Rufus Turner to exorcise Sam with no effects)
- I Believe The Children Are Our Future
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Abandon All Hope...
- 99 Problems
- The Devil You Know
- Season 6
- Exile on Main Street (used to cook eggs)
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe (used to distract a leprechaun)
- Caged Heat (used to repel hellhounds)
- Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
- Season 7
- Defending Your Life (used for protection)
- The Mentalists
- Of Grave Importance
- Season 8
- Season 9
- Bad Boys (mentioned only)
- Season 10
- Season 11
- Plush (used to expel Chester Johnson from Michelle and to protect Rita Johnson and her son Max Dale from him)
- Alpha and Omega
- Season 12
- Season 13