On September 27, 1649, the legal records of Fife formalised the case of Agnes Watersoun, a resident of the coastal burgh of Burntisland. Her appearance in the judicial system (C/EGD/1340) coincides with a period of intense ecclesiastical and civil scrutiny regarding witchcraft across Scotland, during which local communities and Kirk sessions frequently investigated those suspected of maleficium or diabolical pacts.
Following the initial proceedings, the legal process against Agnes culminated in a trial (T/LA/1026). As was customary for the period, these records reflect the intersection of communal suspicion and the formal administration of the law in seventeenth-century Fife. While the surviving documentation is brief, it marks the pivotal moment when Agnes was brought before the authorities to answer for the allegations levelled against her within the jurisdiction of Burntisland.