On the 8th of November 1645, the judicial records of Fife record the involvement of Androw Carmichael, a resident of the parish of Dunino, in the legal proceedings concerning witchcraft that permeated the region during this turbulent period. Though the full extent of the documentation surrounding his case has not been recovered, the entry remains a significant marker in the local history of seventeenth-century Scottish jurisprudence. The scarcity of further detail regarding the specific charges brought against him reflects the fragmentary nature of surviving court records from the mid-1640s, a decade marked by heightened ecclesiastical and civil anxiety regarding supernatural maleficence.
Despite the limited information available in the extant case notes, the mere presence of Androw in the formal registers highlights the gravity with which the community of Dunino engaged with allegations of this nature. His case, filed under reference C/EGD/2532, serves as a testament to the rigorous, if often poorly documented, legal apparatus employed to investigate those suspected of transgressing the boundaries of perceived natural order. For Androw, the interaction with the authorities would have represented a profound disruption to his life, positioning him within the broader, well-documented context of the Scottish witch trials that sought to regulate the spiritual and social anxieties of early modern Fife.