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The Crucible, John Proctor


             Then one day Parris finds Abby and some other girls dancing around in the woods and saw that they were making something like a stew and he saw one of the girls running naked. Then his daughter gets sick and is on the bed inert. They believe that it is witchcraft and call on this other minister who thinks he is an expert in witchcraft and can detect a witch pretty easy which he really isn't all that good at. The problem is actually Abby is forcing her to be inert on the bed or she will hurt her like she has control over all the other girls that were out that night dancing with her. Then John Proctor comes in an Abby starts to get all sweet and tries to get him back again but he says he doesn't even care about her anymore. Abby is really just a two-faced women she acts all kind and can be either the sweetest or meanest person alive when she chooses and you will see a good example of this later on. Then he will leave and go to take his lumber back home. Hale arrives and starts questioning people and he brings a nice load of books with him about witchcraft and such. Reverend Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. After a couples hours when Abby gets backed into a corner she says that Tituba was a witch and was with the devil and after that her and Abigail started naming people that they saw doing witchcraft and sending their spirits out.
             All the people that they were claiming were just low level people. Hale makes a trip to John Proctors house and starts questioning them and says he isn't with the court just doing the research for him. He asks them to state the 10 commandments and John named every one except adultery, which is unusually he should have known that one. Giles Corey then comes along and says that his wife was took to prison to be trailed as a witch and it was because he said she was reading books and he had a hard time praying when she was in the house.


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