Having confessed to witchcraft herself, she was eventually released from prison in June 1692. Under questioning she continued to have fits, confessing under duress to witchcraft and began to accuse various people, including the Proctors, of witchcraft. She was formally accused of witchcraft on April 18, 1692. The other girls became angry with Mary and began accusing her of being a witch because she had told the high court that all the girls were lying that they saw the devil. Warren told them she felt better now and could tell the difference between reality and visions. Some took her answers to their questions to mean that the girls had lied. On April 3, 1692, Samuel Parris read Mary's note to the church members, who began to question Warren after the Sunday services. That night, Warren stated that John Proctor woke her to torment her about posting the note. When her seizures did stop, she posted a note at the Meeting House one Sabbath eve to request prayers of thanks. Warren was kept hard at work at the Proctor home and was told that if she ran into fire or water during one of her fits, she would not be rescued.

For some time, she did not report any more sightings, but she started to have fits again. John Proctor told her she was just seeing his shadow, and put her to work at the spinning wheel, threatening to beat her if she pretended to have any more fits. In early March 1692, Warren began having fits, claiming that she saw the ghost of Giles Corey.

Renouncing her claims after being threatened to be hanged, she was later arrested for allegedly practicing witchcraft herself. She was a servant for John and Elizabeth Proctor. 1674 - unknown) was the oldest accuser during the 1692 Salem witch trials, being 18 years old when the trials began. Accuser and accused in the Salem witch trials

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