The play opens with Reverend Parris praying over his daughter's, Betty's, bed. Betty had been out at night, apparently dancing naked around a fire in the woods, with Abigail, Ruth, Tituba and other younger women from Salem. Betty wakes up and says that Abigail drank blood to make Elizabeth Proctor die. Mary Warren tries to convince the girls to admit only to dancing to make sure they don't get accused of witchcraft. Reverend Hale, who has...
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