In October 1597, thirty-one-year-old Maige Saythe became the subject of a legal inquiry in Aberdeen, recorded in the judicial archives under case reference C/EGD/2167. The proceedings against her were deeply intertwined with the testimony of Andro Man, a fellow resident of Aberdeen whose own entanglement with the legal authorities brought Maige into the focus of the court. According to Man, Maige had been a participant in covert gatherings for a period of six years, a timeline that remarkably aligned with her current age, suggesting that his accusations dated her involvement back to her mid-twenties.
The trial, formally cataloged as T/JO/1299, proceeded as part of the broader legal scrutiny of witchcraft that characterized this period in Scottish history. While the historical record preserves the specific duration of her alleged association with these meetings and the chronological context provided by Man, the documentation remains focused on these formal testimonies. Maige thus remains a figure defined by these legal filings, representing a singular case within the extensive administrative machinery of the 1597 Aberdeen trials.