In 1661, the life of the woman known to history as the wife of Robert Wir intersected with the turbulent judicial landscape of seventeenth-century Scotland. Residing in the parish of Liberton, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, she was a married woman whose local standing was irrevocably altered when she became the subject of legal scrutiny during a period of intense inquisitorial activity. While the precise domestic details of her existence remain obscured by the passage of time, her identification as a witch is preserved within the surviving archival fragments of the era.
Unlike those who faced a formal, documented process of interrogation, the experience of the wife of Robert Wir is known to us only through secondary implication. Her name appears within the trial records of another individual, where she was explicitly identified and labeled as a witch. Because no primary trial record exists under her own name within the contemporary court papers, the specific accusations, witnesses, or testimonies brought against her have been lost. Consequently, she remains a figure defined by the brief, recorded suspicion of her peers, standing as a testament to the pervasive nature of witchcraft allegations in the mid-seventeenth century.