Reverend Hale is specifically summoned as an expert in detecting the presence of witchcraft. He is asked to come to Salem by Reverend Parris to examine his daughter Betty, after she falls into an unknown illness.
Reverend Parris hopes that Reverend Hale will confirm that Betty's illness has nothing to do with the supernatural.
In Act I, Scene I, Reverend Parris says referring to Betty's condition:
"There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none." (Miller)
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