The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Superstition
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - SuperstitionIn the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there is a lot of superstition. Some examples of superstition in the book are Huck killing a spider which is bad luck, the hairball used to tell fortunes, and the rattlesnake skin Huck touches that brings Huck and Jim good and bad luck. Superstition plays an important role in the book Huck Finn.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 dead. Huck knew it was a bad sign and it 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." Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a ha
Huck killing the spider that is bad luck, the hairball that tells fortunes, and the rattlesnake skin that Huck touched are all examples of superstition in this book. Huck kills it and put it in Jim's blanket. Huck says "I made up my mind I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it. One uv 'em's light en t'other one is dark. Jim puts the quarter under the hairball. One uv'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. The good luck was Huck and Jim finds eight dollars in the pocket of an overcoat. De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sil in en gust it all up. Jim tells Huck to chop off the snake's head, then skin the body of the snake and roast a piece of it. Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. After dinner on Friday, they are lying in the grass, and then Huck ran out of tobacco, so he went to the craven to get some, and he finds a rattlesnake. You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo' life, en considable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well ag'in.
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