In the summer of 1662, the small settlement of Crook of Devon, situated within the parish of Fossoway and Tullibole, became the site of a legal inquiry that would draw Janet Brugh into the mechanism of the Scottish witch trials. On July 21, 1662, the legal record (C/EGD/1678) formally registered the case against her. As a married woman residing within this Perthshire community, Janet was subject to the intensifying scrutiny that characterized this period of early modern Scottish history, when local anxieties regarding witchcraft were frequently translated into formal judicial proceedings.
The archival documentation concerning Janet remains brief, noting the date of her case and her residential status during a time when the region saw a concentrated cluster of such trials. While the historical record provides limited detail regarding the specific accusations levied against her, the registration of her name marks her place within the wider legal framework of the mid-seventeenth century. For Janet, this entry represents the intersection of her life in the Crook of Devon with the regulatory reach of the kirk and the civil courts during a particularly volatile era of ecclesiastical and social consolidation.