In the summer of 1629, the community of Kailzie in the parish of Traquair became the site of a significant legal proceeding involving a woman named Margaret Dicksoun. On 11 June, Margaret was formally identified as one of twenty-six individuals caught within the expansive net of a local witch hunt. The archival record, filed under case C/EGD/636, provides little narrative regarding the specific accusations levelled against her, yet the sheer number of those named alongside Margaret suggests a moment of intense judicial and communal scrutiny within the Peebles region.
Following her identification, Margaret was brought before the court to face the gravity of these charges. Although the trial documentation (T/JO/570) preserves the procedural reality of her appearance, it offers no surviving details regarding the testimony provided or the specific conduct for which she was answerable. Consequently, Margaret remains a figure defined by the formal machinery of the seventeenth-century Scottish legal system, representing a brief, recorded moment in the broader history of the witch trials that permeated the social and judicial landscape of the era.