Act One
In act 1 of The Crucible, Betty Parris lays motionless in bed while Reverend Parris discovers that Betty and some other girls were dancing in the forest and he assumes that they were worshiping the devil by practicing witchcraft. After this Reverend Parris talks to his niece Abigail Williams about the activites in the forest and she claims that they were only dancing and were not worshiping the devil in anyway. Once the girls are alone Betty screams for her mother who is dead and Abigail warns the other girls not to say anything else to anyone about what they were doing except dancing or else she would kill them.