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Why is Thomas Putnam using his daughter Ruth to cry that George Jacobs is a witch?

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Thomas Putnam is a greedy man who urges Reverend Paris to be strong and face up to the witchcraft in their midst. He uses his daughter to accuse people whose property he covets. Miller, and most historians, believed that many of the accusations of witchcraft were based on these sorts of greedy, selfish desires.

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