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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......

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