Mary Warren: Accused Of Witchcraft

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Mary Warren is one of the Salem girls that was being accused of witchcraft. She was a “seventeen [year old], subservient, naive, lonely girl” (Miller 17). She was accused of being involved in witchcraft by being with Abigail Williams and the other two girls she hung out with. Mary Warren was not a witch it was just the people that accused her of being one that made other people start to actually believe that she was a witch. For example, Mary Warren was one of the girls that was dancing in the woods with Abigail Williams. For the people of Salem dancing in the woods was a sign of witchcraft or worshiping the devil. Mary Warren also pleads to Abigail saying, “we must tell the truth, Abby! You’ll only be whipping for dancin’, and other things!”

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