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The salt prevents flying? huh? Or the salt is what you drop/rub on the supposedly humanoid-form skin of the soucouyant so that when they return*from* flight as a Ball of Fire just before sunrise they try to put their protective humanoid 'skin' disguise (or uniform) back-on and the salt un-benounced to them burns them and they cannot hurriedly put their 'skin' back-on in time before the sun appears and destroys them like the witches at the end of the movie Hocus Pocus starring Bet Middler?
Storyteller / Comedian Paul Keens Douglas talks about this.
