In September 1659, a woman named Marg Robisone was brought before the authorities to answer to the charge of witchcraft. A resident of Skirling, within the presbytery of Biggar, Marg’s encounter with the judicial system is preserved in the legal records under the reference C/EGD/2408. While historical scholarship—most notably the work of Christina Larner—has sought to catalogue such cases across Scotland, the documentation surrounding Marg remains sparse, reflecting the fragmented nature of seventeenth-century trial records.
The geographic identification of Marg has been a subject of scholarly debate; while Larner associated her with Skirling in the Biggar presbytery, the reference itself was drawn from a publication concerning Arbroath, located significantly further north. Whether this discrepancy represents a clerical error in the primary source or a displacement in the historical record remains unverified. As the research project associated with this case did not confirm the validity of this secondary source, Marg remains a figure defined by these brief, archival annotations, serving as a reminder of the many individuals whose experiences during this period are known to us only through the surviving legal shorthand of the era.