In November 1670, the judicial records of Aberdeen identify a woman named Cristian Brake as the subject of a witchcraft inquiry. Despite the gravity of the accusations typical of this period in Scottish history, the archival evidence regarding her case remains fragmentary and elusive. While early scholarly surveys, such as those compiled by Larner et al., attempted to catalogue her proceedings under the reference number JC26/40, subsequent investigations into the Scottish Judiciary records have failed to locate the specific documentation within that collection.
The discrepancy in the archival record—where the box intended to house these details instead contains materials from 1671—has left the specific nature of the allegations against Cristian and the course of her legal proceedings shrouded in uncertainty. Consequently, historians have been unable to determine the outcome of the case. Because the primary source material is currently missing or misattributed, the final resolution of the trial against Cristian remains an unsolved matter in the history of early modern Scottish witch trials.