In August 1619, the kirk session records of Kirkcaldy, Fife, drew attention to a woman named Isobel Hevrie. Her entry in the historical register, cataloged under reference C/EGD/2568, marks her appearance within the ecclesiastical judicial system during a period when the regulation of folk practices was a primary concern of the Scottish church. While historical documentation often categorizes such appearances under the broader umbrella of witchcraft, the specific nature of the allegations against Isobel remains a subject of academic ambiguity.
It is possible that Isobel was not formally charged with the capital crime of witchcraft, but was instead brought before the authorities for the practice of "charming." This ecclesiastical offense involved the use of traditional healing, incantations, or ritualized folk remedies—practices that fell under the jurisdiction of the kirk. Because scholarly accounts, such as those provided by MacDonald in *The Witches of Fife*, do not explicitly clarify the formal nature of the charges, Isobel occupies a place in the record that highlights the fluid and often overlapping boundaries between illicit folk superstition and formal sorcery in early seventeenth-century Scotland.