Scattered salt and sugar can also portend something, if you believe the old folk signs and superstitions. Whether to trust that sprinkled seasonings can mean something is a private matter for everyone.
Folk omen: salt crumbled
Salt used to be a very valuable product. Of course, only very wealthy people could afford to buy salt, and if someone from the household accidentally spilled salt, then he was scolded and even beaten. In those days, a pinch of salt was worth its weight in gold.
Today salt has become available, it does not represent much value, however, the omen has remained. It is still believed that accidentally spilled salt portends a quarrel in the house.
Another common omen is associated with salt. It is believed that if a girl has oversalted the food, it means that she has fallen in love. It turns out that the unlucky cook was so thoughtful and dreaming that she did not even notice how she was pouring too much salt.
Folk omen: sugar crumbled
Sprinkling salt is a bad omen, and accidentally sprinkled sugar, on the contrary, portends joyful events.
Sprinkling sugar is a good omen. Fate, as it were, gives you a sign that soon life will change for the better, pleasant events and material well-being await you.
This sign is especially significant for young unmarried girls. If a young lady accidentally knocks over a sugar bowl, then soon she will have a new pleasant acquaintance with a good man.
If the bride sprinkles sugar before the wedding, then a comfortable and happy family life awaits her.
