In the summer of 1662, the legal mechanisms of the Scottish state focused their attention upon a woman named Muriall Duy Nein Giliphadrick, a resident of Buntoit in the parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth, near Inverness. On 26 June 1662, Muriall was formally processed under the case reference C/EGD/1572, marking her entry into the extensive judicial machinery that characterized the mid-seventeenth-century pursuit of witchcraft in the Highlands.
While the subsequent trial proceedings, recorded under T/JO/982, contain no surviving details regarding the specific testimonies or nature of the evidence brought against her, the existence of these records confirms her involvement in a formal judicial process. Muriall remains a figure defined by these terse archival entries, which serve as a stark testament to the administrative reach of the Scottish courts during this period of intense scrutiny.