In the spring of 1662, Elizabeth Clow, a resident of the parish of Forgan in Fife, became ensnared in the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials. On May 7, 1662, records confirm that proceedings against her were underway under the reference number C/EGD/1498. This period marked a height of judicial scrutiny in the region, during which the testimonies and actions of individuals in local communities were brought under the formal purview of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
By the end of that same month, Elizabeth had provided a formal confession to the authorities. While the specific nature of her admissions and the subsequent proceedings of her trial—recorded under T/JO/931—remain preserved only as procedural notations, the act of confession was a pivotal stage in the early modern judicial process. The archival trail for Elizabeth concludes with these administrative entries, documenting the intersection of her life in Forgan with the rigorous legal protocols governing witchcraft allegations in seventeenth-century Scotland.