In April 1701, the judicial records of Fife document the case of Elizabeth Dick, a resident of the coastal burgh of Anstruther Easter. At a time when the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials was beginning to decelerate across the country, Elizabeth was drawn into the local processes of criminal inquiry. The administrative registration of her case, cataloged under reference C/EGD/2433, places her within the final decades of the period defined by the Witchcraft Act of 1563.
Historical accounts of Elizabeth’s experience are preserved primarily through the formal documentation of the legal system, which sought to address the charges brought against her in Anstruther Easter. While the specific nature of the allegations made against Elizabeth—as well as the ultimate resolution of her trial—remain obscured by the brevity of the surviving entry, the record stands as a testament to the legal scrutiny she faced during this seventeenth-century transition. Her case remains a documented entry in the broader landscape of early modern Scottish jurisprudence concerning witchcraft.