In the summer of 1670, the judicial machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention upon Mareon Caskie, an indweller of the royal burgh of Lanark. Classified as a woman of middling socioeconomic status, Mareon lived within a community where social standing was often tied to local reputation and public perception. On the 7th of July, the formal proceedings against her commenced, marking her entry into the protracted and often perilous legal landscape that defined the witch trials of early modern Scotland.
The historical record documenting her case—cataloged as C/EGD/1736—is brief, leaving the specific allegations that prompted the intervention of the authorities unstated. While a subsequent trial record (T/JO/649) exists, it contains no granular details regarding the testimony provided or the ultimate verdict delivered in Mareon’s case. Despite this silence in the archival record, her prosecution remains a part of the broader legal history of the period, reflecting the administrative processes through which individuals of middling means were drawn into the intense scrutiny of the Scottish courts during the seventeenth century.