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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain portrays Jim and Huck as superstitious characters. Throughout the novel the role of superstition plays an important role in the lives of these two characters. Although Jim and Huck or totally different characters they both portray the similar quality of superstition. Jim believes a great deal in superstition. “…Jim, had a hairball as big as your fist…He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed everything”(Twain 21). The spirit inside would talk to Jim and give him answers to what he needed to know. Huck new that Pap was back and wanted to ask Jim what he was going to do and if he was going to stay. So Jim took out the hairball said something over it and d