In 1704, Mary Wilson, a resident of the coastal parish of Torryburn in Fife, became the subject of legal proceedings recorded under case reference C/EGD/2447. Situated on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, Torryburn was a community where local kirk sessions frequently monitored the social and moral conduct of parishioners during the final decades of the Scottish witch trials. While the archival documentation specifically associated with Mary remains brief, her inclusion in these records situates her within the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century legal framework that governed accusations of maleficium and communion with supernatural forces in Fife.
The case of Mary serves as a historical marker for the persistent nature of such investigations in the region at the turn of the century. Although the surviving evidence for Mary is constrained by the limited scope of current bibliographic indexing, her administrative record reflects the broader procedural history of the era, wherein individuals were formally brought before local or regional judiciaries. As a woman residing in Torryburn, Mary occupies a specific place in the annals of Scottish social history, illustrating the documented reach of the legal and ecclesiastical machinery that investigated witchcraft in the decades leading up to the final repeal of the Witchcraft Act in 1736.