In the autumn of 1649, legal records identify an inhabitant of Old Aberdeen, situated within the parish of Old Machar, named Isoble Kelman. On November 21, her name was formally entered into the judicial register under case number C/EGD/2386, marking the commencement of proceedings against her. This period in Scottish history was marked by a heightened intensity in the prosecution of witchcraft, particularly in the northeast, where the legal apparatus of the kirk and the state sought to address perceived supernatural threats through the formal mechanism of the courts.
Isoble was subsequently brought before the judiciary to account for the charges leveled against her, as documented in the trial records under reference T/JO/2276. While the specific evidentiary details—such as the nature of her alleged deeds or the testimonies provided by her neighbors—are not preserved in the surviving fragments of this record, her case stands as a significant entry in the broader annals of the Scottish witch trials. The procedural path from her initial entry in the register to the subsequent trial reflects the structured, albeit severe, administrative process that governed accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.