You drank blood, Abby! You didn’t tell him that…You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. After Parris leaves the room, his 10-year-old daughter Betty spills the beans on Abigail. She exposes Abby’s lie that she told Parris everything the girls did in the woods. Abby left out the part where she drank chicken blood and used witchcraft to kill Elizabeth Proctor, Betty reveals. The fact that Betty, who was meant to be a coma, heard this conversation between her father and Abby, means that Betty was pretending to be in a coma. Abigail smacks Betty across the face and tells her to shut up. Abby drinking blood to put an evil spell on Elizabeth early in the play foreshadows her later plot to have Elizabeth condemned as a witch.