On June 19, 1629, Janet Brodie, a married woman residing in Craighead, Nairn, was formally brought before the legal authorities to answer allegations of witchcraft. While some early archival sources associated her with the broader region of Moray, cross-referencing of local jurisdictional records confirms her residence within the parish of Nairn. This identification is significant, as it places Janet within a specific cluster of legal proceedings (indexed as C/EGD/664) that saw several individuals from the area undergo examination during this period of heightened scrutiny.
Following the initial registration of her case, Janet was subjected to the formal processes of the Scottish judicial system. Her trial, recorded under the reference T/LA/638, stands as a distinct entry in the extensive documentation of the witch trials that characterized the decades between 1563 and 1736. Though the specific testimonies and the final outcome of these proceedings remain constrained by the surviving fragments of the record, the administrative preservation of her name serves as a stark historical marker of the legal challenges faced by women like Janet in early seventeenth-century Nairn.