On March 11th Parris invited the neighboring minister to his house for a day of prayer. Even in the presence of these men of God the children behaved "strangely and ridiculously"; one suffered a "convulsion fit, her limbs being twisted several ways and very stiff." (Boyer, 4) On March 12th Martha Corey was accused of Witchcraft.
Several days later Reverend Deodat Lawson, former minister in the Village, stopped at the inn of Nathan Ingersoll in the Village. It was here that Lawson, by candlelight, examined mysterious teeth marks on the arm of the afflicted 17-year-old Mary Walcott. Later that evening, Lawson visited Parris' house where he witnessed very strange behavior exhibited by Abigail. At one point Abigail raced through the house with her arms outstretched crying "Whish! Whish! Whish!" Next she began to pull burning logs from the fireplace and toss them about the room.
