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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Superstition


Superstistion, a word that is often used to explain bad luck, misfortune,
the super natural, and the world that is not known. In the novel The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, superstion playe an important role that
resurfaces several times throughout the book. A belief that a hair ball can tell
the future, a loaf of bread containing quicksilver can point out a dead carcass,
and touching a snake skin with bare hands will give you the worst bad luck, are
all examples of some of the superstitons found in the book.
"Miss Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hairball as big as your fist, which had
been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it.
He said there was a spirit inside of it and it knowed everything." This quote,
taken from chapter four of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a great
example of how superstitius the people of the time were. The hairball's
signifigance to the novel......

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