Betty Parris reveals that she and other girls were dancing in the woods the night before she became ill. When Reverend Parris discovered her, she was acting strangely, waving her arms as if to fly and trying to jump out of a window. Betty pretended to be comatose out of fear of punishment for dancing, and as long as she was believed to be bewitched, she avoided punishment. Under pressure and fear, Betty begins to speak and even accuses others, including accusing Abigail of drinking blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor’s husband. Betty's reveal about the woods incident shows that their behavior was seen as witchcraft by the townspeople, and she, along with others, began naming people as witches to save themselves from punishment or accusations. This sparked the witchcraft hysteria in Salem Village.
