If you spill salt, prepare to be cast into eternal damnation – or something like that. Fortunately, you can reverse this disastrously bad turn of fortune by simply throwing salt over your shoulder. Your left shoulder.

What should you do if you accidentally spill salt?

If you spill salt, you’ll get bad luck. To remedy your misfortune, throw salt over your left shoulder with your right hand to blind the devil and keep him from taking your soul.

Why do you throw spilled salt over your shoulder?

Salt is believed to ward off evil spirits in Mahayana Buddhist tradition, and after a funeral, salt is thrown over the left shoulder to prevent evil spirits from entering the house.