PARRIS: Will you look at my daughter, sir? She has tried to leap out the window; we discovered her this morning on the highroad, waving her arms as though she’d fly.
HALE: Tries to fly.
PUTNAM: She cannot bear to hear the Lord’s name, Mr. Hale; that’s a sure sign of witchcraft afloat.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. In this exchange we heard of a child trying to fly who cannot listen to the Lord’s name, and claims of witchcraft in Salem! A worried Parris looks at his ill daughter, while Thomas Putnam continues to stoke the fires of hysteria.