Composed letter by Abigail
By: Morgan Roubideaux
Hello there my dear cousin,
It’s Abigail by and was thinking that I’d write you on what’s going on here in
Salem: I’m so sure you’ve heard but I’d like to tell you coming from someone who has
been through these situations and these horrid acts. Everybody is getting hung that is
even thought of being a witch. Just everything is getting out of control. There is people
doing witchcraft that you thought would never do such a thing such as Rebecca Nurse
It all started with just me and a couple of girls being bored and got tired of living
a life where nothings exciting so we were dancing in the woods and then Parris saw us
then ever since then they tried saying we were witches but while we were dancing. We
saw certain women with the devil. It’s just horrifying.
I, myself, have been struggling with these incidents. I just got stabbed with a
needle the other day for no apparent reason. It showed up out of no where. My stomach
hurt really badly. I looked down and was bleeding pretty badly. Later on that night, they
found a needle in Goody Proctor’s poppet. To be honest with you my dear cousin, I do
not think you should come home for a while. It’s not safe.
I hope everything turns out ok here. I don’t want anything to happen anymore to
anyone else. Too many women are being crucified but then again if they are doing
witchcraft, so be it. We don’t want any witches in our village where we can be attacked at
any given moment for no reason. Well my dear cousin, I truly do miss you and home to
see you soon but I suggest to wait till all this nonsense is gone.
Yours Truly,
Abigail