Huck Finn 6

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, superstition plays a key role to the story. During that time period, superstitions were almost held sacred to an extent, even though they had been made up to scare little children from doing bad things. Superstition plays a key role in three parts of the story; the spider scene in chapter one, the hairball incident in chapter four, and the snake scene in chapter ten. Superstition …

…Jim tells Huck to chop off the snake's head, then skin the body of the snake and roast a piece of it. Huck took the rattles off and tied them to Jim’s wrist because he (Jim) said it would help him. Huck began to feel guilty and said, "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."