Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
The Puritans' Constant Guard Against Evil and Physical Danger
The Puritans lived with a constant sense of danger and temptation./nConstant surveillance bred a tendency to see threats where there might be none./nThe people of Salem were not ignorant mobs, but educated individuals with an interest in legal theory./nThe witch trial judges were well-educated men, many of them from Harvard./nNew England in the 17th century was one of the most literate communities in history.
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