In November 1670, the judicial records of Aberdeen identify a widowed woman named Janet Anderson as the subject of an inquiry regarding allegations of witchcraft. Situated within the broader context of the Scottish witch trials—a period of intense legal and social preoccupation with the supernatural—Janet’s case appears in the historical register under the reference C/EGD/580.
While the administrative trail for Janet is notably sparse, her inclusion in the records highlights the scrutiny to which widowed women were frequently subjected during this era. Although subsequent surveys of the legal archives—specifically box JC26/40—have failed to locate the original documentation, the case remains catalogued in academic resources such as the *Source-book* compiled by Larner et al. Consequently, the ultimate disposition of the charges against Janet remains unknown, leaving the final outcome of her encounter with the seventeenth-century Scottish justice system unrecorded by history.