ELIZABETH: I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl.
CHEEVER (embarrassed, glancing toward the mantel where sits Mary Warren’s poppet): I spy a poppet, Goody Proctor.
ELIZABETH: Oh! (Going for it): Why, this is Mary’s.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. The clerk of the court at the witch trials Ezekiel Cheever searches the Proctor home for poppets. He discovers one on Elizabeth Proctor’s mantel. He finds a long needle stuck in the doll, left there by Mary Warren who made the doll for Elizabeth earlier that day in court. Elizabeth is arrested for witchcraft because Abigail Williams has claimed that she was stabbed with a needle by Elizabeth’s spirit.