In the closing days of 1646, the legal machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland focused its attention upon Grissal Thomsone, a resident of the parish of Kilmany in Fife. Recorded under case number C/EGD/2360, the proceedings against Grissal were part of a period of heightened judicial scrutiny regarding witchcraft. Her involvement in these legal processes was not singular; historical records reveal that she was also denounced by Marie Mitchells and Jonet Mitchells, whose own testimonies or accusations intersected with the legal challenges Grissal faced during this turbulent period.
The trajectory of these proceedings culminated in the formal records preserved in the Justiciary Court archives under references T/JO/1677 and T/JO/2212. Following the judicial determination reached by the court, the sentence passed upon Grissal was carried out in full. She was executed by burning, a method of capital punishment frequently prescribed for those convicted of witchcraft under the statutes of the time. Through these surviving entries, the documentation of her life and subsequent death remains preserved within the official annals of the Scottish witch trials.