[6] Later, after Campbell had scolded the child for telling tales on her and angrily shouted curses at her ( "The Devil harl (drag) your soul through hell!
Shaw would cry out in these fits again and again that Campbell and Agnes Naismith, a poor elderly widow, were cutting her body with knives, despite neither woman being in the vicinity.
The jury were told that if they acquitted the accused then they too would be deemed "accessory [9]to all the blasphemies, apostasies, murders, tortures, and seductions, whereof these enemies of heaven and earth should be guilty.
[6] While one of the accused, John Reid, killed himself in prison,[8] the other six were executed by hanging before being burnt at the stake in front of a massive crowd at Gallow Green at the West End of Paisley.
The two young Lindsay brothers were reportedly garrotted together as they held onto each other’s hands [8] but..."Katherine Campbell, the Shaw's maid who had unwittingly perhaps started the whole affair, made the crowd gasp in mixed horror and admiration.
Refusing to go quietly, she was dragged screaming and struggling to the scaffold, where she shrieked down the vengeance of both God and the Devil upon her persecutors before being flung into oblivion.