In 1645, Marg Donald, a resident of the burgh of Dunfermline in Fife, became the subject of legal proceedings recorded under case reference C/EGD/2353. This was a period characterized by heightened judicial scrutiny regarding the crime of witchcraft, occurring within a broader socio-political climate that saw an escalation in such accusations across Scotland. As a woman living in Dunfermline during this mid-seventeenth-century crisis, Marg found herself navigating the rigorous mechanisms of the Scottish kirk sessions and the secular courts that governed the moral and legal order of the time.
While the records concerning Marg remain brief, her case is catalogued among the formal judicial inquiries of that year. The archival note attached to her file indicates that specific secondary references—namely those associated with the scholarship of Christina Larner—were not verified during the original project research, leaving the particulars of her interrogation and the final outcome of her trial largely absent from the surviving documentation. Consequently, Marg remains a testament to the thousands of individuals whose involvement in the witch trials is preserved in the registers of the period, reflecting the administrative diligence of an era that sought to identify and adjudicate suspected instances of maleficium.