In February 1621, Christiane Hammyltoun of Inverkeithing, Fife, became the subject of a legal proceeding that drew her into the extensive web of early modern Scottish witch trials. The records indicate that she faced serious accusations, most notably that of attending a witches' meeting—a charge that, within the judicial context of the time, suggested a conspiratorial gathering against the established social and spiritual order. Christiane’s case, indexed under reference C/EGD/897, moved through the Fife courts, where the gravity of these allegations eventually led to the documentation of a formal confession.
The reach of these investigations often extended across communities, with one accused person frequently implicated by the testimony of another. In this instance, Christiane was explicitly mentioned in the trial of Marioun Chatto, underscoring the interconnected nature of these prosecutions in seventeenth-century Fife. Following the legal protocols of the period, the trial recorded under T/LA/255 sought to establish the truth of these charges through her own admissions, marking a definitive, if tragic, moment in the historical record of her life in Inverkeithing.