Christian Watson, a married woman residing in the coastal town of North Berwick, Haddington, found herself drawn into the judicial machinery of the seventeenth-century Scottish witch trials in the winter of 1663. Historical records, which note her connection to Adam Gillies as his wife, preserve her identity through both the local church registers and the formal legal documentation of her prosecution. The primary archival evidence, filed under case reference C/EGD/1888, confirms that the legal proceedings against her were initiated on December 24, 1663.
The sequence of events culminated in a trial, recorded under reference T/JO/1951, which followed the standard judicial processes of the period. While the surviving documentation focuses on these formal administrative markers, it provides a stark record of the transition from Christian’s daily life in North Berwick to the scrutiny of the criminal courts. Her case stands as a representative example of the intense period of witchcraft prosecutions in Haddington, illustrating the methodical legal recording that defined the era's approach to such accusations.