Girls in the Woods
At the start of the play, this girl has fallen into a trance. She is assumed to be possessed and screams upon hearing the Lord's name.
Betty Parris
This man is the new minister in Salem. He preaches hellfire and is very concerned with his reputation.
Rev. Parris
She is the Parris's slave from Barbados.
Tituba
This is the setting of the opening of Act I.
Rev. Parris's house in Betty's room
This man wrote The Crucible.
Arthur Miller
This girl is the oldest and the presumed leader of the group. She witnessed her parents murder. She had an alleged affair with John Proctor.
Abigail
He is the first villager to instigate a witch hunt. He is the father of one child, six others having died at birth.
Thomas Putnam
She has had six children die at childbirth. Her one daughter is Ruth. She blames Sarah Osburn for the death of the other children.
Ann Putnam
This is the person who has been slandering Abigail's name around Salem.
Elizabeth Proctor
The Salem Witch Trials began in this year.
1692
This girl is the daughter of Thomas and Ann Putnam.
Ruth Putnam
He had an alleged affair with Abigail but now wants nothing to do with her. He doesn't attend church.
John Proctor
She is a 72-year old woman. She is sensible and claims the girls are just going through "silly seasons."
Rebecca Nurse
This may have been the reason Thomas Putnam named Sarah Osburn as a witch.
Because she was the Putnam's midwife
Rev. Parris claimed to see this animal in a kettle in the woods.
A frog
This girl is the Proctor's current servant.
Mary Warren
He provides the comic relief in the play. He is worried his wife is reading "strange books." He has been involved in many lawsuits concerning land ownership.
Giles Corey
She is the first woman accused of witchcraft. Thomas Putnam asked Tituba if she was with the devil. She is a homeless woman in Salem.
Sarah Good
This is who drank Goody Proctor's blood in the woods.
Abigail
Rev. Hale brings these to Rev. Parris's house.
Books on demonic arts
This girl is the Putnam's servant. She was witnessed by Rev. Parris running naked in the woods.
Mercy Lewis
He is an expert on demonic arts. He tells others not to look to superstitions.
Rev. Hale
She was the midwife in most of Mrs. Putnam's deliveries.
Sarah Osburn
These are the kinds of lawsuits Giles Corey was involved in around Salem.
Land ownership and money
This is the rumor about Tituba that leads her to being at the center of the witchcraft blame.
She can speak to the dead.