Superstitions in Huckleberry 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 …showed first 75 words of 713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 713 total…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." (Twain 52) As one can see Superstition plays an important role in the novel Huck Finn. Huck killing the spider that is bad luck, the hairball that tells fortunes, and the rattlesnake skin that Huck touched are examples that brought bad luck to Huck and Jim in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.