angelblack3 asked: So I remember reading somewhere that fae folk also follow the mathnomania thing, but I hadn't heard of it being poppy seeds, I thought it was salt granules/sugar, hence why ppl would think salt could protect them from malevolent forces. Is that different?
I think the poppy seeds were only for vampires, at least I don’t remember that being mentioned for other creatures? Salt seems to be a universal supernatural-things-don’t-like-that or at least it’s considered so special that making a barrier with it can protect against lots of things (well I mean it works on slugs, so \o/)
In terms of other specifics I was told that the way to run away from Leprechauns is to throw all your shoes at them, as they can’t move on until they’ve fixed all of them up to be the best they can be! I also seem to remember something about pins and witches- that if you drop a box of pins the witch has to pick all of them up and put them back one by one? But I’m not sure if that’s just a local thing.