Abigail: and mark this. let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and i will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. and you know i can do it; i saw indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and i have seen some reddish work done at night, and i can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! why does abigail threaten the other girls? to stop them from exposing her as a liar to make them afraid of native americans to scare them into confessing to witchcraft to convince them to accuse tituba of witchcraft