1. Think Now: How might the Salem village land wars be an underlying cause of the witch hysteria?

2. Do Now: Combine these sentences using a semicolon or coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS): Factions fought over land. Personal grudges lasted a long time. A man like Putnam might accuse people of witchcraft. He could buy their land after they were hanged.

3. Fine Lines Between… 17 th Century political and religious power religious faith and supersition science and magic reason and imagination To Keep in Mind: We know there were no witches, but people were “communing with, and even worshipping, the Devil in Salem” (35).

4. Arthur Miller describes Cold War politics (p.34): “Political opposition…is given an inhumane overlay which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized intercourse. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.” Does this kind of demonization of the opposition occur today? abrogation: cancellation malevolence: evil