In 1692 Salem, the town minister, Reverend Parris, discovers his niece Abigail and his daughter Betty dancing with a group of girls in the woods. Their “group leader” seemed to be his slave, Tituba. When Betty’s father sees her she faints and does not awaken for several days. Citizens of Salem reckon the girls were performing witchcraft. Crowds gather outside of the Reverend's house while he is trying to figure out what exactly happened that night. His niecee states that they were only just dancing and having a superior time, though it soon is revealed that Tituba was trying to conjure spirits. Reverend Parris exits the house to calm the people when John Proctor, a local farmer, appears. At one point Abby was a servant for Proctor but had
