For humans, the predictable structure of a nursery rhyme melody helps make it simple enough for a child to learn. For a ...

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Adapted by Deborah Collcutt from Pop Goes The Weasel: The Secret Meanings Of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack, published by Penguin on August 28 at £12.99 Albert Jack 2008.

“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook,” goes the singsongy rhyme in 6-year-old Samuel’s (Noah Wiseman) pop-up book, which appears one day on his shelf.

But in many versions of this nursery rhyme, the players do not fall down at the end, but curtsey to each other. A curtsey is a gracious bending movement, and not linked to morbid deaths in any way.