In 1662, an unnamed woman identified in the legal records simply as Neving became swept into the legal machinery of early modern Scotland. A resident of Saltoun in Haddington and a married woman, she was identified as one of the many individuals denounced as a witch by a young man named James Welch. While Welch was ultimately deemed too young to stand trial for his role in the proceedings, his testimony and confessions were treated with grave seriousness by the authorities of the time, serving as the catalyst for the legal action taken against those he named.
Following these denunciations, Neving was taken into custody, with historical records indicating that both she and her husband were accused of witchcraft. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/572 and T/LA/1348, reflects the chaotic scale of the period's trials, where the accusations leveled by a single individual could implicate entire households. As her case progressed through the Haddington courts, she remained a figure caught within a judicial process that relied heavily on the testimony of the accuser, marking her place in the extensive archival history of the Scottish witch trials.