 In March 1711, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, eight women were put on trial and found guilty of witchcraft.The women were put in stocks and then jailed for one year.The trial was the result of a claim by Mrs. James Haltridge that 18-year-old Mary Dunbar exhibited signs of demonic possession such as "shouting, swearing, blaspheming, throwing Bibles, going into fits every time a clergyman came near her and vomiting household items such as pins, buttons, nails, glass and wool".