" ... Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could move it was all shrunken up. I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad 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 tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider..." (chapter 1, adaptación propia)
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" es una novela de Mark Twain, primero publicada en Inglaterra en 1884 y en los Estados Unidos en 1885 después.
Tópicos para discutir
¿Existe la mala suerte? ¿Crees que hay cosas que se pueden hacer para evitarla?
Supersticiones contra el mal o contra la mala suerte:
Determinadas acciones son tradicionalmente consideradas como conjuros o actos contra el mal, los malos espíritus, las brujas y la mala suerte:
Contanos que supersticiones escuchaste en tu país
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