In 1662, the parish of Fossoway and Tullibole became the site of a series of legal proceedings against several local women, among them Isabel Condie. A resident of the Crook of Devon, Isabel was drawn into the administrative machinery of the Scottish witch trials during a period when the kirk sessions and local magistrates were increasingly active in identifying those suspected of malevolent supernatural practices. As with many cases documented within the jurisdiction of Perthshire at this time, her prosecution followed the established legal framework for handling allegations of witchcraft, involving the gathering of depositions and the involvement of local ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
The archival trace left by Isabel is limited to her presence within the seventeenth-century judicial records (C/EGD/1706). While the specific nature of the accusations levied against her remains obscure, her case remains a component of the broader historical tapestry of the Fossoway trials, a series of events that saw multiple women from the same small community face interrogation. Through the lens of these records, Isabel stands as a documented figure in the complex, often devastating, social and judicial landscape of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland, illustrating the reach of the witch-hunting climate that permeated the rural parishes of the era.