Essay on Superstition in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Superstition
Superstition is a recurring motif in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Superstition is defined as "an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome." In this book, most of the superstitions that are mentioned are negative but some are positive or neutral.
The first example of a negative superstition takes place at Hannibal, Missouri when Huck flicks a spider off his shoulder and it gets burned in a candle's flame. That was a sign of bad luck, so Huck counteracts the bad luck by turning ar…