In the spring of 1662, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch hunts descended upon the parish of Findo Gask, Perthshire. On the 7th of May, Jonet Allan, a resident of the small settlement of Overgask, was formally identified as the subject of a witchcraft inquiry, registered under the archival reference C/EGD/1517. This legal action took place during a period of intense judicial scrutiny in Scotland, where local authorities and church officials were increasingly active in pursuing allegations of diabolical influence within their communities.
While the administrative record captures the initiation of these proceedings, the subsequent trial notes (T/JO/935) remain silent regarding the specific evidence presented against Jonet. Consequently, the precise nature of the accusations brought against her in Overgask is lost to the historical record. Like many individuals swept up in the mid-seventeenth-century trials, Jonet exists in the archives as a name marked by the legal process, her experience reflecting the broader systematic efforts to investigate and prosecute suspected witchcraft in post-Reformation Scotland.