Convenant Of Salt - Prompt: Salt or Vinegar
Back in Jan, I wrote this drabble for open_on_sunday.
They had just began having new mods there. I also posted it on my personal
journal. It never appeared on the community journal. I sorta freaked
out about it thinking it wasn't good enough. So I deleted it on my own
journal. Then this week it finally popped up on the community journal.
Seems it had gotten stuck in the queue. So I am posting it again to my
personal journals here on DW and LJ.
Title: Covenant of Salt
Prompt: Salt or Vinegar
Setting: Season Seven
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not Joss, just me, no money, just love.
∞ ♥ ∞
Willow poured the salt slowly into the small bowl.
Holding it, she prayed silently.
Then she set it in the center of the table.
She set the silverware and glassware at each place setting.
In the kitchen, she arranged the food with care upon the plates.
Before placing them on the table, she gently sprinkled a tiny amount of the salt on the food.
Her friends might never notice, but it was important to her to do this.
It created a binding with them and helped her watch over them.
Not so much a witchy thing, but a Jewish one.
∞ ♥ ∞
The Salt Covenant
Entering into a Covenant of Salt means binding oneself to another
in utmost loyalty and truthfulness, even suffering death, rather than
breaking the covenant. For this very reason a Covenant of Salt was
never done lightly or haphazardly - it deserves serious respect.
To the ancient Hebrews, salt represented purification, and was also
symbolic of enduring friendship, honesty, and loyalty (2Kin.2:19 -21; 2Chr.13:5).
Additional Disclaimer:
I am not Jewish. I hope this does not offend anyone.
I found this when searching for ideas for the prompt.
I believe Willow might have been taught this by her
religion and found comfort by doing this.
They had just began having new mods there. I also posted it on my personal
journal. It never appeared on the community journal. I sorta freaked
out about it thinking it wasn't good enough. So I deleted it on my own
journal. Then this week it finally popped up on the community journal.
Seems it had gotten stuck in the queue. So I am posting it again to my
personal journals here on DW and LJ.
Title: Covenant of Salt
Prompt: Salt or Vinegar
Setting: Season Seven
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not Joss, just me, no money, just love.
∞ ♥ ∞
Willow poured the salt slowly into the small bowl.
Holding it, she prayed silently.
Then she set it in the center of the table.
She set the silverware and glassware at each place setting.
In the kitchen, she arranged the food with care upon the plates.
Before placing them on the table, she gently sprinkled a tiny amount of the salt on the food.
Her friends might never notice, but it was important to her to do this.
It created a binding with them and helped her watch over them.
Not so much a witchy thing, but a Jewish one.
∞ ♥ ∞
The Salt Covenant
Entering into a Covenant of Salt means binding oneself to another
in utmost loyalty and truthfulness, even suffering death, rather than
breaking the covenant. For this very reason a Covenant of Salt was
never done lightly or haphazardly - it deserves serious respect.
To the ancient Hebrews, salt represented purification, and was also
symbolic of enduring friendship, honesty, and loyalty (2Kin.2:19 -21; 2Chr.13:5).
Additional Disclaimer:
I am not Jewish. I hope this does not offend anyone.
I found this when searching for ideas for the prompt.
I believe Willow might have been taught this by her
religion and found comfort by doing this.