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"Don't go to sleep, Lauren." BASL's leader commented, shaking her shoulder lightly. He gave Amy a half smile that managed to be both sympathetic, and if he were perfectly honest, really amused at her predicament. "I'll see if I can get something requested. It's ridiculous that you've gone so long without a proper uniform."

After glancing at the assorted reactions to the idea of calculus, ranging from dismayed to apathetic, he gave a wider grin. "Anyone here done Calculus before?"

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I am afraid I do not agree with you, but as you do not want to argue it any more, I suppose that is the end of it.

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They totally are.

(No they're not)

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"Bad news, Lauren, I'm pretty sure this class is supposed to be calculus." Ben commented, peering at the board through a slightly swollen eye as he found his way to a seat. Plenty of seats for his team around him, and one he offered to Luke with a gesture. "Welcome back, Amy. Good to see you. Guess you still don't have a uniform."

"Lauren, how were you luckier than her that way?"

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Actually, many of the cultures that include references to salt and purification don't have much else they could mean by "evil spirits". Evil spirits is an exceptionally clear term, even if what they attributed in the past to evil spirits might well be what we would think of bad luck. An analogy wherein multiple translations casts an event (especially a fictional one) in a different light doesn't mean that salt isn't linked to evil spirits.

A common superstition is that spilling salt can attract evil spirits, thus necessitating throwing a pinch of it over your shoulder to ward them off. To quote a source I found when I did a little reading (because I get bored), "In Buddhist tradition, salt repels evil spirits. That's why it's customary to throw salt over your shoulder before entering your house after a funeral: it scares off any evil spirits that may be clinging to your back."

Stating that Supernatural thought up the link between salt and spirits is simply untrue. It may have instilled it in the public conscience, or represented it in an exaggerated way to aid the narrative, but the link in warding off spirits is there.

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Honestly, PoS, you can't call an interpretation of several very clear mythologies "not evidence", and then not provide any evidence that there is no historical basis.

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I'm honestly amused the whole use of the term "salt" was overlooked.

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Salt doesn't effect everything.

@KabenSaal

Definitely. Not even salt this potent.

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Clearly not, with how much people seem to be haunted by theirs

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Shockingly high sodium chloride concentrations scattered about after them combat matches