In June 1662, Cristian Nein Ferquhar Vic Ewin, a married woman residing in Buntoit within the parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth, found herself caught in the machinery of the Scottish legal system on suspicion of witchcraft. The official records from the Register of the Privy Council identify her as being associated with the locale of Conveth, though administrative accounts point more precisely to the parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth in Inverness. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/1575, proceeded through the courts during a period when the judicial pursuit of alleged malevolent practitioners was particularly active across the Highlands.
The legal process surrounding Cristian moved with striking swiftness. During that same month of June, a formal confession was extracted from her, marking a pivotal moment in the proceedings against her. While the subsequent trial records (T/JO/978) offer no surviving narrative of the specific allegations or the testimony presented in court, the presence of this confession remains the defining element of the archived history. Cristian thus remains a figure defined by the brief, austere documentation of a 17th-century judicial inquiry, providing a window into the intersection of local community life and the formal exercise of ecclesiastical and state authority in the Inverness region.