They were making a spell to kill Elizebth Proctor
They didn’t ancestors
deez
my answer:abigail, betty and their other girlfriends danced in the woods trying to conjure witchcraft.i advise you to read the bookrickie-d says:While all the girls danced in the woods, it is Mercy Lewis who dances naked in The Crucible.
The girls have been dancing in the woods with Tituba, and one of them has passed out. It raises the spectre of witchcraft.
He saw Abigail and all the other girls dancing in the woods. He thought they were performing witchcraft and saying spells but they all denied it and said they were only dancing.
Parris
deez
The girls danced in the woods, in the forest.
my answer:abigail, betty and their other girlfriends danced in the woods trying to conjure witchcraft.i advise you to read the bookrickie-d says:While all the girls danced in the woods, it is Mercy Lewis who dances naked in The Crucible.
They claim to be bewitched to avoid punishment for dancing in the woods at night.
The girls have been dancing in the woods with Tituba, and one of them has passed out. It raises the spectre of witchcraft.
He saw Abigail and all the other girls dancing in the woods. He thought they were performing witchcraft and saying spells but they all denied it and said they were only dancing.
Parris
To draw attention away from themselves (and what they were doing in the woods) and make scapegoats out of others.
At the end of act one te girls find themselves doing harsh things to John proctor because he has been a naughty boy.
They felt (when in the woods with Tituba) that they were doing something forbidden, daring, and danced to express a nameless freedom that welled up in their souls, a sense of freedom that went against all rigid restraint imposed by the their Puritan community. If you're happy and you know it, it's a sin!
Ida
That girls where just being girls