Annotation - Chapter 11, Page 72
From Riddley Walker Annotations
- (72:31) "it wernt like no other figger I ever seen. It were crookit .... I cudnt hardly beleave it .... It wer a hump and it wer meant to be a hump"
As we see later, Riddley's people have a fear of deformity which is both practical and superstitious; to deliberately make a hunchbacked puppet might be seen as tempting fate.