In the spring of 1662, the legal records of Haddington recorded the name of Jeane Dikson, a married woman caught within the escalating mechanisms of the Scottish witch trials. On April 17, her case was formalised under the reference C/EGD/548, marking a transition from local suspicion into the judicial scrutiny of the early modern state. Her involvement appears to have been linked to the testimony of James Welch, an individual responsible for denouncing a broader network of people during this period of heightened religious and social anxiety.
Though Jeane remains a figure defined by the brief, cold entries of bureaucratic documentation, her inclusion in lists alongside others denounced by Welch suggests she was part of a wider series of interrogations unfolding in the region. While modern researchers such as Christina Larner have noted her presence in academic catalogues of these trials, the primary source material remains elusive, leaving Jeane as a documented entity within the legal landscape of 1662 rather than a fully reconstructed life. Her history is thus defined by the formal machinery of the seventeenth-century court, which preserved her name even as the specific details of her confrontation with the law faded from the archival record.