Salting the earth | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-16

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth


00:00:36 1 Destroying cities
00:03:31 2 Punishing traitors
00:05:41 3 Legends
00:06:00 4 See also
00:06:23 5 Footnotes and references
00:06:34 6 Bibliography



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Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on their re-inhabitation. It originated as a symbolic practice in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. Contrary to popular belief, using salt in this way would not have been a practical method of rendering an area unfit for crop production due to the very large quantity of salt required.