The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

INDEXES

TOPICAL INDEX

• Aaron, God's covenant with, [17].
• Ababde women, reference to, [99].
• "Abusers of the salt," [110].
• Added traces of the rite, [123]-130.
• "Agreement" used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Alexis, Grand Duke, reference to, [125].
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," reference to, [25].
• Altar and table as synonymous, [85].
• "Ancient Mariner," reference to, [135].
• Animal food supplies lack of salt, [38].
• Antony and Cleopatra, reference to, [55].
• Arabia, Bed'ween of, reference to, [110].
• "Arabian Nights," reference to, [64].
• Arabs: regard for salt covenant among, [29];
  • not accustomed to put salt on table, [29] f.;
  • rite of bread and salt among, [31];
  • John Macgregor taken prisoner by, [32] f.;
  • swearing by salt of, [54];
  • milk sometimes accepted as substitute for salt by, [62];
  • honesty of, [111] f., [166].
• Archeology: its value compared with philology, [4].
• Ark of the covenant, reference to, [145].
• Armenians, supply of salt cut off, [43].
• "Arrangement," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Arvieux: cited, [34].
• Asiatic cholera promoted by lack of salt, [46].
• Asiatic Quarterly Review, reference to, [46].
• Assyrian roots, gain of looking among, [4].
• Assyrian: word for "salt," [76];
  • words translated "covenant," [6] f.
• "Attic salt," synonym of life in conversation, [68].

• Babe: anoint with blood, [59];
  • more life to a, [59].
• Bancroft, H. H.: cited, [57], [95].
• Band, symbol and pledge of union, [7].
• Barley-meal cakes employed in sacrifice, [94].
• Bartholow, Dr.: cited, [41].
• Battas, in Sumatra, form of oath of, [123].
• Bed'ween, conventions for covenants of, [30] f.
• Bey, Durzee, reference to, [24].
• Bheels, in India, reference to, [60].
• Bible: references to the rite in, [17];
  • carried over threshold of new house, [76], 106;
  • estimate of treachery in, [113].
• Bingham's "Antiquities:" cited, [89].
• Bird Bishop, Isabella: cited, [47], [100].
• Birth of child, salt at, [61].
• Blackwood's Magazine, reference to, [127].
• "Blood Covenant": reference to, [6], [7], [8], [9], [41], [45], [48], [53], [54], [59], [60], [62], [67], [79], [85], [86], [117], [118], [119], [120], [147].
• Blood: fresh, drunk by people of Masai, [37];
  • salt representing, [37]-50;
  • drained from animals slaughtered by Jews, [39];
  • transfusion of, [41];
  • use of, as food, [41];
  • red corpuscles of, [42] f.;
  • saline ingredients in, [42] f.;
  • anointing a new-born babe with, [59];
  • Kaffir new chief washed in, [60];
  • represented by wine, [117];
  • atoned for by blood, [137];
  • sprinkled by Moses, [148];
  • shedding man's, [162] f.
• "Blood-licker" in Mecca, [48].
• "Blood revenge" in the East, [163].
• Blunt, on Book of Common Prayer: cited, [80].
• Bock, Carl: cited, [61].
• "Boiling water, ordeal of," [101].
• Booddhists in China, customs among, [92].
• Bracelet as symbol and pledge of union, [7].
• Brâhmanas, reference to, [90] f.
• Bread: salt as an accompaniment of, [14];
  • and salt, [23]-34;
  • significance of, [79], [80];
  • and flesh, [119].
• Bridal couple, sprinkled with salt, [128] f.
• Browning, Mrs., quotation from, [55].
• Buchanan, Dr., reference to, [41].
• Bunge, Professor: cited, [38], [39], [123].
• Burckhardt: cited, [24], [99] f., [100], [166].
• Burder: cited, [31], [110], [112].
• Burning Lamps, Feast of, [92] f.
• Burning of salt, [99] f.
• Burton: cited, [24];
  • quotation from, [26].
• Bush's illustrations, reference to, [109].
• Buxtorf: cited, [87] f.

• Cadamosto, Aloisio, reference to, [69].
• Cannibals, bathing body of chief in salt after death, [61].
• Catacazy, Madame de, reference to, [125].
• Ceres, reference to, [23].
• Cattle, salt as meaning, [91].
• Characteristics of a covenant, [3]-10.
• Chemist's use of term "salt," [39].
• China: blood substitute for salt in, [38];
  • depriving a person of salt a mode of punishment in, [42];
  • customs among Booddhists in, [92].
• Church, salt in dedication of a, [90].
• Cicero, reference to, [68].
• Circumcision as token of a covenant, [8].
• Clapperton: cited, [24].
• "College salting," [128].
• Collitz, Professor Hermann, reference to, [50], [74].
• "Compact," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• "Conventions," Bed'ween, [30] f.
• Corpse, salt on a, in Scotland, [103].
• Cosmas, reference to, [69].
• Covenant: meaning of the word, [3] f.;
  • characteristics of a, [3]-10;
  • etymology of, [5];
  • words used interchangeably with, [5];
  • marriage a, [7];
  • circumcision as token of, [8];
  • various kind of, [9], [13];
  • Bible references to, [17].
• Covenanting, exchange of tokens and symbols in, [8].
• Cross, sign of the, reference to, [89].
• Curative powers of salt, [43] f.
• Customs preceding words, [9].

• Dacier, reference to, [70], [88].
• Daraon, burning of salt among people of, [99].
• Darius, King, directing supply from royal treasury, [20].
• David, God's covenant with, [17] f.
• Da Vinci's painting, reference to, [113].
• Dead body, salt on breast of, [104].
• Dead Sea, reference to, [58], [134].
• Death: from salts-hunger, [42];
  • salt used at, [61];
  • or life, [133]-138.
• Dedication of a church, [90].
• Definition, not easily reached, [5].
• Delitzsch, Friedrich: cited, [7].
• Denham: cited, [24].
• Dhar, used in treaty of peace, [123].
• Diab, Joseph, reference to, [28].
• Discovery of salt as article of diet, [41].
• Disputes settled by salt and water, [124].
• Divination, salt in, [99]-106.
• Division of Ten Commandments, [159] f.
• Doolittle: cited, [100].
• Doughty: cited, [24].
• Du Tott, Baron, quotation from, [27], [28].
• Dyer, Thistleton: quotation from, [104];
  • cited, [113], [137], [138].

• Eassie, W.: cited, [62].
• Ebionites, salt and bread employed by, [50].
• Edwards's "History of West Indies," quotation from, [60].
• Egypt: salt forbidden to priests in ancient, [55];
  • Feast of Burning Lamps in, [92] f.;
  • burning salt in, [99];
  • Muhammadan Arabs in, [100].
• Egyptian: use of salt in sacrifice, [93];
  • idea of wine and blood, [118];
  • collection of taxes, [130].
• Egyptians, table an altar among, [85].
• El Hejaz, Bed'ween of, reference to, [110].
• Elijah, reference to, [58].
• Elisha, reference to, [57].
• Elizabeth, Queen, reference to, [126].
• Elkesaites, bread and salt employed by, [50].
• Ellis's " History of Madagascar:" cited, [8].
• England, burning salt in, [101].
• Esquimaux, value of blood among, [39].
• Etruscan: symbolism, [93];
  • customs, salt in, [105].
• Etymology of "covenant," [5].
• Eucharist, salt in the, [89].
• "Evil eye:" reference to, [100] f.;
  • treatment received by James Napier for, [101] f.
• Evil spirits, exorcising, [99].
• Exactness of definition not to be reached, [5].
• Exchange of tokens and symbols as a means of covenanting, [8].
• Exorcism, salt in, [99]-106.

• Faithlessness to salt, [109]-114.
• "Father," Oriental meaning of, [160].
• Feast of Burning Lamps, [92] f.
• Fidelity to salt, [130].
• Finn, Mrs., quotation from, 32.
• "Fire: salted with," 65;
  • salt leaping up in, [95];
  • salt thrown into, [100].
• Fish, salt in Dead Sea in lieu of, [58].
• Flesh and bread, [119].
• Flies, dead, life brought to, by salt, [63].
• Flood, use of blood as food forbidden after the, [41].
• Floor, salt sprinkled upon, [100].
• Florus, reference to, [55].
• Food: salt indispensable in, [14];
  • use of blood as, [41].
• Ford, George A.: cited, [101].
• Founder of Saffaride dynasty, [27].
• Fourmeaux, L.: cited, [40].
• Frazer: quotation from, [110];
  • cited, [118] f.
• "Freshman, salting a," [128].
• "Friendship the Master-Passion," reference to, [9].
• Funeral, salt scattered at threshold after, [100].
• Furness, W. H., [3]d, reference to, [124].

• Germans, waging war for saline streams, [59].
• German Jews, customs among, [86].
• Gesenius: cited, [7], [109].
• Ghoorka salt, eating, [110].
• Ginger root, salt and, given as wedding-cake, [124].
• God's covenant with his people, [150] f.
• Gold, salt in exchange for, [69].
• Greek Church, salt deemed essential in Eucharist by, [89].
• Greek words translated "covenant," [7].
• Griffis, William Elliot: cited, [47], [100].
• Grimm, reference to, [74].
• Gümpel, C. Godfrey: cited, [45].
• Gypsies, Hungarian customs among, [129].

• Hall, Bishop, reference to, [127].
• Hamelin, M.: cited, [34].
• Hamlin, Dr.: cited, [24].
• Harmer: cited, [24].
• Harper's Latin Dictionary, reference to, [94], [96].
• Hospitality, salt symbol of, [126].
• Hebrew roots, gain of looking among, [4].
• Hebrew words translated "covenant," [6] f.
• Hebrews, forbidden to eat "with the blood," [62].
• Hehn, Victor: reference to, [69];
  • quotation from, [70].
• Hemorrhage, salt administered in, [40].
• Henderson: cited, [103], [104], [137], [138].
• Henniker, Sir Frederick, reference to, [49].
• Herodotus: reference to, [92];
  • cited, [119].
• Hilprecht, Dr. Herman V.: cited, [76].
• "Holy water:" salt essential element of, [90];
  • and salt mingled in food and drink, [101].
• Homer: cited, [53], [94].
• "Honey, milk and," symbol of blood and flesh, [80].
• Howell, W. H.: cited, [41], [42].
• Hungarian gypsies, customs among, [129].
• Hungary, wedding customs in, [128].