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.

One of the first experiences that tell us that he’s superstitious is his encounter with

the spider. When Huck sees a spider crawling up his shoulder, he flips it off and it the

spider goes into the flame of the candle. Before he could get it out, it gets shriveled up.

Huck didn't need anyone to tell him that it was a bad sign and would give him bad luck.

Huck got scared at that moment 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

The second important experience that told that he’s superstitious is when he sees

the fantasy and reality of the time period.

When Jim turns to his magic hairball for answers about the future, we see that he does

realizes afterwards in his journey. Over the course of the novel Huck's opinion of Jim

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