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The devil hates salt and is over your left shoulder. by throwing the spilled salt, you "blind" the devil and he cannot get you
its to not have bad luck when you spill the salt. im not sure where it came from, but i do it. haha. silly i guess.
The act of throwing a pinch of salt over your left shoulder after spilling some has its origins in the fact that since before modern times it was so hard to get it was considered bad luck or as Tarzan would say “Bad JuJu” to spill any. Therefore if you should happen to spill some you throw a pinch of it over your left shoulder to combat the bad luck.
This was also echoed by Leonardo da Vinci in his 15th century mural the last supper where Judas is depicted as spilling salt on the table before he denied Jesus. In the mural Judas is seated on the left of Jesus or as superstition would hold the evil or bad side. The reasoning behind this therefore goes that if you spill salt to break the bad luck you throw a pinch of it over your left or evil shoulder
if you spill salt it's supposed to unleash evil and bad luck, so you throw salt over your shoulder to "blind the devil" and prevent bad luck from occuring
y'see daisy, folks in early times were, really really scared of stuff... so they came up with stupid placebos like throwing salt over one's shoulder to make the world seem safer. of course this is also the reason why the sea is so salty
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