Abigail cannot have John or be in a relationship with him since he is married to Elizabeth. Abigail is also angered at Elizabeth since Elizabeth is blackening Abigail’s name in Salem because Abigail had an affair with Elizabeth’s husband. Thus, Abigail decides to remove Elizabeth from John’s life by any means necessary. Abigail practices witchcraft by asking Tituba her uncle’s slave to make a charm that will kill Elizabeth, which she drinks while the girls are dancing in the woods (a forbidden act to do in Puritan society). To clarify, Abigail is the one who is “practicing witchcraft” and the one who is accusing innocent people that she does not want alive. Abigail falsely accused Elizabeth of witchcraft when seeing Mary Warren, Elizabeth’s