[Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly answered this Query, by the following list:—
PYL (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the Dutch Language, 8vo. Rotterd. 1826, 8s.
AHN (F.) Neue holländische Sprachlehre nebst Lesestucke, 12mo. Cref. 1841, 2s.
AHN (F) holländische Umgangsprache, 12mo. 1846, 1s. 6d.
PICARD (H.) A new Pocket Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages, remodelled and corrected from the best Authorities. Zalt-bommel, 1848, 10s. 6d.
DICTIONNAIRE Hollandais et Français. 16mo. Leipzig, 4s.
HOLLANDISCH u. deutsches Taschen-wörterbuch. 16mo. 4s.]
"Salting."—Salt is said by all writers upon magic to be particularly disagreeable to evil spirits; and it is owing to this noxious substance being dissolved in holy water, that it has such power in scaring them away. Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in all sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption?
Salt is used emblematically in many of our foreign universities. There is a book published at Strasburg as late as 1666, containing twenty plates, illustrating the several strange ceremonies of the "Depositio." The last represents the giving of the salt, which a person is on a plate in his left hand; and, with his right hand, about to put a pinch of it upon the tongue of each Becanus or Freshman. A glass, probably holding wine, is standing near him. Underneath is the following couplet:—
"Sal Sophiæ gustate, bibatis vinaque læta,