Bread and salt
Bread offered with salt at a threshold — the old hospitality gesture of welcome to a stranger.
Bread and salt in a dream is the dream's image of the old hospitality gesture by which a household welcomes a stranger at the threshold. The bread is the supply; the salt is the trust. The gesture is older than any one tradition that performs it. The dream brings bread and salt when something in your life — a first meeting, a return after long absence, a new arrival into a household — is being marked by a small deliberate act of welcome. Bread and salt received and accepted is the dream affirming the entry. Bread and salt declined at the door is the dream noting that the welcome was offered and the visitor has refused the form of being made guest in this house.