The Paisley witches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland, in 1697. Eleven-year-old Christian Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Bargarran, complained of being tormented by some local witches; they included one of her family's servants, Katherine Campbell, whom she had reported to her mother after witnessing her steal a drink of milk.
Seven people – Margaret Lang, John Lindsay, James Lindsay, John Lindsay of Barloch, Katherine Campbell, Margaret Fulton, and Agnes Naismith – were found guilty of having bewitched Shaw and were condemned to death. They were hanged then burned on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe.
Agnes Naismith cursed everyone present at her trial and their descendants, and for many years afterwards every tragedy in Paisley was blamed on her curse. Christian Shaw went on to become a successful businesswoman and manufacturer of thread.
The Paisleywitches, also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland, in 1697....
centre of the Paisleywitches trials, were in circulation at the time. Patrick Cowper, the local minister who was intolerant of witches, had read the...
between 3-4 million people. Common methods of execution for convicted witches were hanging, drowning and burning. Burning was often favored, particularly...
which an estimated 300 witches were tried and executed. In the year of Hopkins' death, 1647, he published The Discovery of Witches which directly cited...
of witches". The entry in his diary the following day describes a meeting with Colville when they discussed witches and he mentions "Park's witches". Brodie...
means of transport supposedly used by witches in folklore, including an alleged case in which a group of witches teleported from Bakewell, England, to...
witches. There was said to be large number of witches of several sorts (social classes) who had dedicated themselves to the devil and had a witches mark...
last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when the five Paisleywitches are hanged and then burned in Scotland. June 27 – After becoming a...
Pannell Witch. The prequel, Becoming The Pannell Witch, was published in the same year. Johnson, Helen (31 October 2018). "The Yorkshire Witches: Mary Bateman...
Rebecca Mason "Hubble bubble, toil and trouble: Scotland's dark past as a witch-hunting nation". HeraldScotland. 15 October 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019...
History of Orkney, Birlinn, ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0 Willumsen, Liv Helene (2013), Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-25292-9...
The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of...
references to a fairy in statements given to interrogators by alleged witches were routinely changed to read devil or demon. At her trial in Kirkwall...
witches, Witches in Words, not Deeds, created by Carolyn Sutton. Alison Dick was one of the figures exhibited at Edinburgh's Central Library. Witch trials...
last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when the five Paisleywitches are hanged and then burned in Scotland. June 27 – After becoming a...
among other venues, the Portal Gallery in London. Hall is a native of Paisley in Scotland. Hall is a painter, illustrator and high school teacher. He...
profile as part of the Witches of Scotland campaign and is an invited speaker at Scottish literary events such as the Soutar and Paisley Book festivals "Zoe's...
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