Superstitions of Huck Finn
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Jim and Huck use and believe in many superstitions. There are many examples from the book that show this in the characters. Most of the superstitions are very ridiculous, but some actually make a little sense. In the first example, Huck seen a spider was crawling on his shoulder and he flipped it off and it landed in a lit candle. It shriveled up and died. Huck said it would fetch him some awful bad luck. He got up and turned around three times and crossed his breast every time. Then he tied up a little lock of his hair with a thread to keep witches away. He says that the ritual he did was for losing a found horseshoe and did not know if it would work. These superstitions and remedies seem pretty far-fetched and it is hard to say where they originated, but I would have to say they originated down South. I think it originated down south because I am from up North and I have never heard any one speak of those superstitions. Huck believes in these probably because he grew up with them and they were always taught to him and he is so ignorant he does not know better. One morning Huck turned over the saltcellar at breakfast. He went to throw the salt- cellar over his le
These superstitions do have a little credibility. All day he wondered when something would fall on him and what it would be. I think Jim believes this because he does not know any better. Huck and Jim probably believe in this because it makes a good deal of sense to. The superstition probably got stretched a little out of proportion, but I think a good deal of it is real. He thought this because his dad caught one and got sick and his grandmother said he was going to die. The previous superstitions probably originated out of stories told wrong, exaggerated, or people kept jazzing up stories to make them interesting, until they turned into nothing, but nonsense. This all implies that Huck thinks something is going to fall on him, because of his accident. It probably originated because people like Huck picked up their skins and kept them in their bags or played tricks on the friends, like Jim. This superstition has good size of fact to it to. He thought if birds did it, it would be the same. I think they originated because some birds do fly in patterns when it is going to rain or storm. Maybe his dad caught the bird and ate it without cooking it all the way, or maybe the bird was infected and killed Jim's dad. Money can buy many things, it can also make normal people understand and believe things they usually would not of.
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