Katherine Campbell

Katherine Campbell (Katie Campbell, Catherine Campbell) (born circa 1677; died 10 June 1697) was a maidservant accused of theft and witchcraft during the last major witch hunt in Scotland, the Paisley witch trials. Biography Campbell is described as " a young, well-favoured lass, twenty years of age". She was an economic migrant who had travelled from the Highlands of Scotland to obtain work in Paisley, Renfrewshire. In August 1696, Christian Shaw, the ten or eleven-year-old daughter of the wealthy laird of Bargarran near Erskine, accused Campbell, a maidservant in the Bargarran household, of theft when she supposedly saw Campbell sneaking a drink of milk in the kitchen. Shaw reported the theft to her mother who reprimanded Campbell. 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 claimed that Campbell had bewitched her and caused her to fall ill.