Abigail Williams

Abigail Williams is the main antagonist of many stories about the Salem Witch Trial, one is Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible.

She is an intelligent and manipulative young woman from Salem during the 17th century, who single-handedly started the Salem witch trials as does her controversial real-life counterpart of the same name.

Abigail Williams is described as "seventeen with a remarkable capacity for dissembling" who covets Elizabeth Proctor's husband John Proctor and tries to get Elizabeth killed in the Salem witch trials.