Abigail chooses early on to reject Mary Warren's idea to confess to what went on in the woods. Mary Warren suggests that the girls admit to dancing in the woods to avoid a severe punishment. Abigail, who has a very untenable situation in Salem, rejects this course of action, choosing instead to attempt to deflect attention from the girls onto others in town. This is why she begins to say that other people had sent their spirit out (in acts of...
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