The curse is a good example of how a witch trial story keeps growing in the town that carried it out. The trial record gives the names and the sentence, while the curse belongs to later memory. Paisley people are said to have used it to explain fires, deaths and bad luck for generations, and the story is still told on the town's heritage and ghost walks.
Nothing in the sources ties the curse to a particular later disaster, so it is best read as a persistent local belief rather than a documented sequence of events.
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