Christian Shaw has a fit lasting forty-eight hours during which she thrashes violently, does not sleep, and cries out repeatedly for help.(10)

Christian Shaw starts having fits where she seems to have struggles with an invisible adversary. She fights with such force that four men can barely hold her down.(11)

Christian Shaw has a fit during which she accuses Catherine Campbell and Agnes Nasmisth of cutting her side.(11)

Christian Shaw can predict her fits by a pain in her side. She has fits during which her throat moves towards her breast and her tongue hangs out below her chin. Her tongue is also tortured when she tries to pray.(11)

Christian Shaw has fits during which she vomits large quantities of hair.(11-12)

Christian Shaw has extremely violent fits lasting four or five days during which she tries to climb walls, hurt her self, and accuses four men of causing her fits.(14)

Christian Shaw has a fits during which the Devil appears to her. Her body is then stiff as though dead.(15)

Christian Shaw suffers a series of fits lasting months. She is also bewitched so that she is unable to say what the witches forbade her to say.([End Page 29])

Christian Shaw put out of her mouth hot "coal-finders," bones of all sizes, hay and dung, and sticks of "candle-firr" from her mouth.(4)

Christian Shaw reads scripture out loud for two hours at a time. She then screams that no one shall ever take her bible. Sometimes, she falls into violent fits afterward.(7)