In 1655, Marione Kenock, a resident of Papryo in Caithness, became the subject of legal proceedings that would ultimately mark her as a fugitive within the Scottish judicial system. Her case is recorded under the reference C/EGD/770, which highlights her appearance on a fugitive list associated with the circuit court. This designation indicates that Marione did not submit to the jurisdiction of the court during the period when the judicial machinery of the seventeenth century was actively pursuing allegations of witchcraft.
Because Marione fled the circuit court proceedings, the historical record regarding her eventual fate remains incomplete. According to the notes provided by Larner et al. in their source-book, the specific outcome of her case is unknown. While her name appears in the legal registers of the time, the lack of a formal verdict reflects the reality of many such individuals whose lives were interrupted by the intense scrutiny of the era’s witch trials, leaving her story suspended in the silence of the archival record.