In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, the town minister, Reverend Parris, finds his niece Abigail and his daughter Betty dancing with a group of girls in the forest. Their “group leader” seemed to be his slave, Tituba. Betty, his young daughter, faints when she is found dancing by her father, and will not wake up for many days. The citizens of Salem believe that they were performing witchcraft and this is the reason Betty will not wake up. Crowds gather outside of the Reverend's house while he is trying to figure out the exact truth of that night by asking Abigail. Abby tells him that they were only just dancing and having fun though it soon is revealed that Tituba was trying to conjure dead spirits. Parris goes outside of his house to calm the
