In the late summer of 1661, Agnes Pogavie, a 36-year-old resident of Gilmerton in the parish of Liberton, Edinburgh, became the subject of a rigorous legal process that culminated in her trial before the High Court. Her journey through the judicial system moved swiftly: between late July and early August, she provided a series of confessions that formed the core of the prosecution's case against her. Within these records, Agnes stated that she had entered into a pact with the Devil eleven years prior, a commitment that placed the beginning of her alleged involvement at the age of twenty-five.
Following her trial on August 7, 1661, the court returned a verdict of guilty. On August 9, just two days after her final confession and the conclusion of the trial, the sentence was carried out. Agnes was taken to the Common Green, where she was executed by the standard method of strangulation followed by burning. The legal proceedings concluded in under two weeks, marking the end of a life defined by the strict religious and judicial climate of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland.