The Bargarran Witchcraft Scare: The Truth about Witchcraft Trials

The Bargarran Witchcraft Scare occurred in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in the 1690's. With the Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution fast approaching, what was the cause the strange occurrences reported by Christian Shaw, the daughter of John Shaw, The Laird of Bargarran, and who, or what was responsible for her mysterious injuries, leading to one of Scotland's most famous trials, The Paisley Witchcraft Trial of 1697.

Book Links:

A Source Book of Scottish Witchcraft: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Source-Book-...

The Kirk, Satan and Salem: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kirk-Satan-S...

Escaping Salem: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escaping-Sal...

Further Reading:

Richard Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, (Oxford, 2005).

Christina Larner, Christopher Hyde Lee and Hugh V. McLachlan, (2005) A Source-Book of Scottish Witchcraft, The Grimsay Press, Glasgow.

Hugh V. McLachlan (ed.), The Kirk, Satan and Salem: The History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, (Glasgow, 2006).

Hugh V. McLachlan and J. Kim Swales, 'The Bewitchment of Christian Shaw: A Re-Assessment of the Famous Paisley Witchcraft Case of 1697', in Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson (eds.), Twisted Sisters: Women Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400, (East Linton, 2002).