A tied bundle of lavender and rosemary beside a small blue bowl of coarse white salt on a deep green surface.

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Sally Owens

Always throw salt over your left shoulder; keep rosemary by your garden gate; plant lavender for luck; and fall in love whenever you can.

— Practical Magic  ·  1998

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A little charm list of folk habits capped by a heartfelt instruction: toss salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary at the gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever possible. It treats love as one more ritual worth practising.

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