In June 1662, Cormule Nean Ean Duy Vic Conchie Vic Goune, a married woman residing in Buntoit within the parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth, found herself at the centre of a formal legal inquiry. The records from the Register of the Privy Council identify her location as Conveth, though contemporary scholarship confirms her residence in the Highland parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth in Inverness. Little remains of the specific proceedings against her, but the judicial trail begins with the case registered under the reference C/EGD/1577 on June 26, 1662.
Cormule’s interaction with the authorities concluded with a confession, which was formally recorded during the same month as her initial case filing. While the trial documents—catalogued as T/JO/976—do not provide the specific nature of the allegations or the content of her testimony, the survival of the confession record underscores the gravity of the legal process she faced. Her case remains a documented instance of the ecclesiastical and civil scrutiny applied to women in the Highlands during the seventeenth-century witch trials.