Talk:Abigail Williams/@comment-2001:14BA:3FC:3600:4D42:F26B:6904:729-20171202222305/@comment-74.132.165.195-20171203005712

As the above posted, Abigail was the first child of Salem to begin acting as though "possessed by evil spirits", but she herself was never accused of being a witch. Instead her accusations as a spectral victim led to the death of a number of people, and began a hysteric craze that ended up killing hundreds.

In addition, she herself actually disappears from written history after the eighth trial she was involved in, and we have no idea what became of her; there are legitimately no verifiable records of her after that final trial appearance. This extra bit of mystery makes her a rather interesting fit for her character role.