The historical record of Janet Tucidie, a resident of Corstorphine in the parish of Edinburgh, remains fragmentary, offering only a brief glimpse into the mechanisms of accusation during the mid-seventeenth century. While no independent trial records exist for Janet, her name is preserved within the judicial documentation of the period—specifically case JC26/26—as one of several individuals identified during the proceedings of another trial.
According to the research compiled by Larner et al. in their sourcebook of Scottish witchcraft cases, Janet was implicated through the testimony of one James Welch. It was Welch who named her as a witch, effectively drawing her into the legal orbit of the Scottish courts in 1659. Beyond this singular association, however, the archival trail for Janet disappears; extensive searches have yielded no further documentation regarding her defense, the specific nature of the allegations brought against her, or the eventual outcome of her case.