King Diamond: "Abigail" Multiple Choice Quiz | 10 Questions

Answer: He burned her.

The count figured out that his wife's child wasn't his. Filled with rage and jealousy, the count decided to kill his wife and the child before she was born so his possessions wouldn't go to an illegitimate child.

Answer: A pair of yellow eyes

After Miriam, possessed by Abigail, pushes Jonathan down the stairs, she gives birth to Abigail. But the seven horsemen arrive just in time to take the child away to a chapel in a forest.

Answer: Natias

Miriam is 18 years old and pregnant with Jonathan's child at the beginning of the story. Abigail's spirit uses the child growing inside her to be born again.

Answer: 18 will become nine

"18 will become nine" means that "the 18 year old girl will become nine months pregnant", foreshadowing Abigail's big come back. King Diamond uses the number "nine" a lot in his stories, as it is the devil's number. 18 is actually eight plus one equals nine.

Answer: Summer of 1845

It all started in July 7th 1777, when the count killed his wife and her unborn child. Now in 1845, Jonathan and Miriam have inherited the mansion after the count's death, and this is where and when the story takes place.

Answer: The death of the countess

The count's way to kill his wife is by throwing her down the stairs that leads to the crypt, killing both his wife and her unborn child Abigail.

Answer: Seven

After Abigail was killed and mummified, the counts asks his servants to drive seven silver spikes through her body in a coffin. One through each arm, hand and knee and let the last of the seven be drawn through her mouth so that she may never rise and cause evil again.

Answer: To mummify the girl for the future to find

He couldn't stand his wife cheating on him, so he killed his wife by pushing her down the stairs. He then mummified the child and gave her a name, Abigail. "You must rest in shame", he said. Then he brought the child to the crypt down below and asked his servants to run silver spikes through her body in her coffin.

Answer: An empty cradle swaying in the air

One morning the couple wakes up to find numerous strange happenings in the mansion, which they believe were omens. Some of the omens were: nobody's inside the church but the bell is ringing, for no reason the flowers are dying and the empty cradle swaying in the air.

Answer: I'm having Your baby my love...love

Jonathan sees that the ghost of the count and the seven horsemen has been telling the truth. Miriam is now possessed by the spirit of Abigail, so he tries to push her down the stairs like his ancestor did so many years ago, but Abigail has gotten smart, she knew the trick already. So, using Miriam's body, she throws HIM down the stairs and then Miriam gives birth to Abigail with Miriam dying in the process. The seven horsemen arrive just in time to take the child away.
Nowadays, if you walk the stairs in July, you can still hear Miriam screaming in pain.