Another Huckleberry Finn

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Another Huckleberry Finn

Superstition in
Huck Finn In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, there is a lot of superstition. Some
examples of superstition in the novel are Huck killing a
spider which is bad luck, the hair-ball used to tell fortunes,
and the rattle-snake skin Huck touches that brings Huck and
Jim good and bad luck. Superstition plays an important role
in the novel Huck Finn. In Chapter one Huck sees a spider
crawling up his shoulder, so he flipped it off and it went into
the flame of the candle. Before he could get it out, it was
already shriveled up. Huck didn't need anyone to tell him
that it was an bad sign and would give him bad luck. Huck
got scared and shook his clothes off, and turned in his tracks
three times. He then tied a lock of his hair with a thread to
keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a
horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the
door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to
keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In
chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So
Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a
hair-ball that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox's
stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the
hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck
gives Jim a counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under
the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck
that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne
to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec
he'll stay. De bes' way is tores' easy en let de ole man take
his own way. Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One
uv'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. De white one
gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sil in...

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