In the year 1661, the name of Marin Coran appeared within the judicial records of Edinburgh, specifically associated with the parish of Liberton. While archival efforts to locate a dedicated trial dossier for her—historically catalogued under reference C/EGD/431—have proven unsuccessful, her name survives in the legal memory of the period due to its emergence during the proceedings of another individual’s trial. Within the complex landscape of mid-17th-century Scottish justice, such peripheral mentions often served as the catalyst for further scrutiny, linking individuals to the wider, interconnected web of accusations that characterized the era.
Because no formal indictment or testimony specific to Marin remains in the extant records of the Court of Justiciary, the exact nature of the allegations leveled against her remains obscured. Her inclusion in the historical record acts as a testament to the diffuse way in which accusations of witchcraft traveled through local communities, where an individual might be drawn into the judicial process simply by being named by another under suspicion. Consequently, while Marin’s case persists in the catalogues of historians such as Larner, she remains a figure defined by the absence of a trial record, representing the many unnamed participants in the witch-hunting climate of the 1660s whose specific fates were never fully transcribed for posterity.