Abigail first lies to her uncle, Reverend Parris, in Act One, when she tells him that she and the other girls "never conjured spirits." Mrs. Putnam soon after tells him that she sent her daughter, Ruth Putnam, to Parris's slave, Tituba, to conjure the spirits of Mrs. Putnam's dead babies to find out who murdered them. In other words, they were absolutely conjuring spirits in the woods before Betty Parris became ill. She lies again in Act One...
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