Does anyone know some information about the superstitions used by Mark Twain in Tom Sawyer. One may not really consider these things true superstitions, but they were listed in an assignment given to my 7th grader by his advanced English teacher--and we spent hours trying to find the origins and meanings of some of these. A dead cat burying a marble tossing a marble doodlebugs hearing a ghost We found that Twain used the superstitions he had heard in his own childhood in this novel, but finding out exactly where they came from was difficult. Perhaps in all your studies of Twain someone has come across this!!!!