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Why did Lots wife actually turn into a pillar of salt and not just into stone?

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Why did Lots wife actually turn into a pillar of salt and not just into stone?

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It’s probably just a mythical tale to explain one of the many salt outcrops that occur naturally around the Dead Sea area. A possible instance of simulacra (i.e. inanimate object appearing to look like living thing) may have inspired the story.