On January 21, 1630, legal proceedings were initiated against Janet Currie, a resident of the parish of Crimond in Aberdeenshire. The records, cataloged under case reference C/EGD/1175, mark the formal entry of Janet into the judicial apparatus of early modern Scotland at a time when the authorities were increasingly preoccupied with the prosecution of witchcraft. As was customary in such seventeenth-century proceedings, the accusation placed her under the scrutiny of local kirk sessions and civil magistrates, whose jurisdictions often overlapped in the rigorous pursuit of those suspected of diabolical pacts or maleficium.
Following the initial registration of her case, Janet was brought before the court under trial reference T/LA/745. The documentation preserved from this period offers a stark glimpse into the administrative path taken by individuals caught within the machinery of the witch trials. While the specific charges brought against her in Crimond are not elaborated upon in these surviving registers, the movement from the initial case recording to the formal trial structure illustrates the standard judicial progression of the era, reflecting the gravity with which the community and the state regarded such allegations during this volatile chapter of Scottish history.