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Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

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The Witches: Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

Stacey Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and author of The Witches. Her book chronicles the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts that took place in 1692. She says there are many parallels between oral culture and social media today. In fact, New England was one of the most literate communities in the history of the world.

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