which shoulder do you throw salt over

You traditionally throw salt over your left shoulder.

Quick scoop

• In Western superstition, if you spill salt (which was once seen as a bad omen), you take a pinch and toss it over your left shoulder.

• The left side was often associated with evil or the devil “lurking” just behind your left shoulder, so the salt is meant to hit or blind that spirit and cancel the bad luck.

• Some modern sources say either shoulder is fine and that the gesture itself matters more than the direction, but “left shoulder” remains the most common version people refer to when asking which shoulder do you throw salt over.

In short: if you want to follow the classic superstition, toss that pinch of salt over your left shoulder after you spill it.

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