In the summer of 1661, Jonet Hewat, a thirty-two-year-old resident of Liberton near Edinburgh, became entangled in the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. The legal proceedings against her were swift and concentrated: official records indicate that Jonet provided a confession on 29 July 1661, shortly before her case was formally processed on 7 August. Within the depositions, Jonet admitted to participating in a witches' meeting, a charge that formed the crux of the prosecution against her.
Beyond these organized gatherings, Jonet’s confession revealed a long-standing association with the diabolical. She testified that she had first encountered the Devil seven years prior to her accusation—a timeline that placed the beginning of her alleged involvement at the age of twenty-five. These details, preserved in the court records of case C/EGD/360 and trial T/LA/393, document the specific admissions Jonet made during the intense interrogations that defined the period, marking the conclusion of a life that had remained, by historical accounts, unremarkable until the scrutiny of the 1661 trials.