Sentence examples for spilled salt from inspiring English sources

She touched wood and threw spilled salt over her shoulder, and if she saw a rabbit she tipped her hat and said, "How do, Brother Rabbit".

Nevertheless, I can't imagine a future in which treating our public email addresses as secret will do any more good than tossing spilled salt over your shoulder.

Various organizations rented space at the temple, including, in 1928, the Women's 13 Club, whose dinner there featured spilled salt, smashed mirrors and ladders to walk under.

On our second night, on a crescent of sand just past Eight Foot Rapid, we listened to the river tumble and were mesmerized by stars as thick as spilled salt in the night sky.

Forced to respond to thousands of calls from residents panicked by spilled salt, sugar, flour, baking soda and the seemingly ubiquitous powdered doughnut crumbs, some of the state's larger municipal fire departments have rehired retired workers, sent others to crash training courses, borrowed equipment and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in unforeseen overtime.

Don't spill salt (but if you do, throw some of the spilled salt).

Global Studies -Research good luck rituals around the world, like the Chinese custom of spilling salt into one's hand that Mr. Burri explains in the article.

In order to get rid of the devil you invite in by spilling salt, you have to throw a bit over your left shoulder, where he is sitting, to blind him.

Spilling salt is unlucky?

Many details from "The Last Supper" have been lost, including Jesus' feet and Judas spilling salt.

Break a mirror, have a cat (especially a black one) cross your path, spill salt... all of these can -- if we let them -- make us believe that we're embarking on seven years (give or take) of bad luck.