When Was Abigail's Accused Of Witchery In The Crucible '

Abigail was the one that started all of this because she was accused of witchery but instead of accepting the fact, she ends up accusing other people of witchcraft. She blackmailed the girls to not say a word or they will die. She wanted all of them to pretend to be summoned by the demon so they can accuse other people of witchery. In the book on page 19, “Let either of you breathe a word, or edge of a word. About the other things, and i will come to you in the black of some terrible nights and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shatter you”. This is what she said to the other girls so they wouldn't tell on her. She would also do things like faint, scream spirits , or even run away to blame innocent people of witchery and the other girls would follow what she was doing.

It all started when Paris saw them cooking something in a pot, dancing, and Abigail drinking chickens blood. They were all accused and yell at for doing some witchcraft. Abigail accused Tituba of witchery and begged Abigail to do it with her so Abigail wouldn't be beaten but Tituba started to name names which Abigail and the other girls caught on and name some people of who they saw there. They also accused Mary Warren, “Mary Warren utterly confounded, and becoming overwhelmed by Abigails and the girls utter conviction, starts to whimper, hands half raised, powerless, and all the girls began whimpering exactly as she does”. The girls would copy Abigail so it would seem more realistic that they were seeing demons and causing the person they accused to be