Salting the earth

Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors.^[1]^[2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages.^[3] The best-known example is the salting of Shechem as narrated in the Biblical Book of Judges, 9:45. The supposed salting of Carthage is not supported by historical evidence.

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