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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 15
“I didn’t need anybody to tell me that that was awful bad sign and would fetch me some dad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tried up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.”

This quote shoes the narrator immense superstition, for earlier in the book Finn killed a spider flicking it into a flame and this is where this quote derives from. The ritual shows the fact that he has a planned system of superstition. The fact that he mentions a witch shows that he has the same superstition that of the slaves he lives with. Thus quote also relieved that Finn works with a luck based system. It also show that Finn is religious this is apparent when he crosses his crest.