The Crucible: Summary In this play The Crucible, Arthur Miller exposes the evil behind the Salem witchcraft of 1692. This play begins with several young girls dancing in the woods and conjuring spirts. A servent woman named Tituba led these seven girls in a voodoo dance. Rev. Paris cought these girls conjuring sprits. As a result, the girls beging to blame their behavors on witchcraft. Abigail Williams is a young girl whose only desire is to have John Protor as her lover, but there is only only one thing stopping her and thats John's wife Elizabeth. So one day Abigail goes to Tituba, who is a voodoo witsh, and ask