i have read and heard in many places that salt is a good protection against evil. but how do you use it? do you sprinkle it around your house or make a cross out of it? i dont know. no ones ever really been able to give me a straight answer. Anyone have any ideas?

Yes SeaSalt is actually used to keep entities at bay. No you dont have to make a cross, for example I have sprinkled it around my bed and entry way. Sprinkle it every place you feel there is negative activity. In addiction you could try holy water, or Virgin Olive Oil..Good Luck..JN

We used salt around areas (house) and then used olive oil to bless the entry ways..

is there any prayer or something that i need to say while using the salt? or do i just sprinkle the salt without saying anything?

It only works against evil slugs.

Depends on what your faith is. In our case, we read chapter Psalms 91-

I've heard of salt being used in hoodoo practices. For purification and protection before spells and such.

I don't know of a Christian origin for the salt belief, but in many Afro-Craibbean religions, it is traditional and probably entered the Pagan belief system through Hoodoo in the Western World rather early during the slave trade/cultural blending among European superstitions and Afro superstitions. OR, it may have been added into Afro-Carib religions from the European folkloric system, like poppets did, but which Vodou gets blamed for to this day

The theory is that the spirits of the Dead are about decay and attracted to it, hence since salt preserves, it repels them. One sprinkles a pinch or so in every single corner of their home, including closets, and blesses the rest using Florida Water, or Holy Water, to cleanse a residence of negativity and bad spirits. Some add burning pleasant incenses better suited for cleansing lower level entities, such as Frankincense and/or myrrh or white sage, and some then close it up by blessing all windows and doorways with olive oil or Florida Water, often in the form of tiny crosses, while praying and asking for what they intend - in this case cleansing of all bad things and a request for God's blessing on the home and peace.

This is best done by a person who owns or is the authority figure of a household, like the father or mother, or else by an ordained priest in a religion which deals with this sort of thing. It is less effective done by outsiders inside someone else's home, unless they are ordained. Self initiates are not ordained in the sense I mean.

That is how it is viewed, generally speaking, in the Diasporic religions.

So, now you've gotten several straight answers .

YMMV
NS

Yes, what Nyx said

NS

edit to add: You are asking about premises, yes? There are other applications, such as in baths to cleanse one's self, which we see a version of in Western culture of bath salts. Salt baths are also used in Afro-Caribbean religions to cleanse things of negative entities or energy. All based on the same principle of repelling the Dead.

That's interesting, NS

As far as salt being used in Christianity. I'd never even heard of it until these elders in the church brought it here and used it..

Aw slugs aren't really bad at heart, they're just misunderstood...

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I agree with the folks posting about salt being used in several fashions in several different belief systems.

I wouldn't hesitate to pray diligently and sprinkle salt around if I thought it would protect, halt or deter a negative energy or evil spirit.
I believe in doing whatever you personally can to resolve an issue before calling in the big guns.